ProfessorHans Hendrischke

MA, PhD Bochum University

Hans Hendrischke is Professor of Chinese Business and Management at the University of Sydney Business School and a member of the University’s China Studies Centre. He undertook his postgraduate research at the Contemporary China Institute, SOAS, University of London, and has lived in China from 1979, working in the diplomatic service and later in the finance industry. He speaks and writes fluent Chinese.

Hans is a frequent commentator on Chinese business and Australia–China economic relations in national and international media. His team's annual Demystifying Chinese Investment in Australia reports, produced with KPMG, receive wide international attention.

Since 1989, Hans has held a number of leadership roles, including Director of the Centre for Chinese Political Economy at Macquarie University; Co-Director of the UNSW–UTS Centre for Research on Provincial China; Director of the University of Sydney Confucius Institute; and Head of the China Business Network at the Business School.

His research focuses on the emergence of China’s private enterprise sector and the globalisation of Chinese firms, including their investment in Australia. His teaching and PhD supervision centre on formal and informal business institutions, local business systems, and local governance.