Graeme Gill is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Sydney, having retired from there in 2014. He has taught and researched in the areas of Soviet and Russian politics, authoritarian politics, state development, and democratisation for more than 40 years, mostly at the University of Sydney but prior to that at the University of Tasmania. He has published 28 books (including 10 with Palgrave Macmillan) and more than 100 articles. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a past president of the International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES) and of the Australasian Association for Communist and Post-Communist Studies (now Australasian Association for Euro-Asian Studies).