David Goodman is Emeritus Professor of Chinese Politics in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University of Sydney and in the Department of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

He was educated at the University of Manchester in Politics and Modern History, Peking University in Economics, and the London School of Oriental and African Studies in Chinese language and Chinese Politics.