Alan Williams is Professor of Aviation Management in the School of Aviation at Massey University in New Zealand. He is also a Visiting Fellow in Management Studies at Wolfson College, Cambridge and has held visiting professorships at the Aetna School of Management at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and at Sun-Yat Sen University in Guangzhou. His current research interests lie in the areas of both aeropolitics and market modernization especially in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific region.