Martin Jacques is a Senior Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, Cambridge University, and a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Beijing, and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Modern International Relations at Tsinghua University and the China Institute, Fudan University.

He is the author of the global best-seller When China Rules the World: the End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order. The book has been shortlisted for two major literary awards. His TED talk on how to understand China has had over 3 million views.

He has previously been a Visiting Professor at Renmin University, the International Centre for Chinese Studies, Aichi University, Nagoya, and Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. He was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He has also been a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at IDEAS at the London School of Economics. He was formerly the editor of the renowned London-based monthly Marxism Today until its closure in 1991 and was co-founder of the think-tank Demos. He has been a columnist for many newspapers, made many television programmes for the BBC and is a former deputy editor of The Independent newspaper. He took his doctorate while at King’s College, Cambridge.