Prof. Peter Nolan holds the Sinyi Chair of Chinese Management in the Judge Business School Studies in the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of Jesus College. He is the Director of the Chinese Big Business Programme, which brings together leading international and Chinese firms for regular strategic discussions based on case studies undertaken within the participating companies. He has researched and written on economic development, the Chinese economy, comparative economic systems and transition economies. He has consulted for national governments, international institutions, and large corporations. He has written numerous scholarly articles and edited several books. He is the author of the following books:

(with T J Byres) Inequality: India and China compared, 1950-1970, Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1976

Growth processes and distributional change in a south Chinese province: the case of Guangdong, London University: Contemporary China Institute, 1983

The political economy of collective farms: An analysis of China's post-Mao rural economic reforms, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1988

State and market in the Chinese economy: Essays on controversial issues, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1993

China's rise, Russia's fall: politics and economics in the transition from Stalinism, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995

Indigenous large firms in China's economic reform: the case of Shougang Iron and Steel Corporation, London University: Contemporary China Institute, 1998

Coca-Cola and the Global Business Revolution, Cambridge: The Judge Business School Studies, 1999

(with Wang Xiaoqiang) Strategic Reorganisation (Zhanlue chongzu), Hong Kong: Wenhui Publishers, 2000

China and the Global Business Revolution, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001

China and the global economy: Big business, industrial policy and national champions, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001

My view of China's large enterprises (Wo kan zhongguo daxing qiye), Beijing, 2001

Guangdong in the Asian Financial Crisis, Curzon, 2002.