Peter Nolan is visiting Professor at Asia Research Centre, CBS, and Sinyi Professor of Chinese Manangement at the Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge, Chair of Cambridge University Development Studies Committee, and Director of the Chinese Big Business Programme.

He is a member of the editorial board of the Cambridge Journal of Economics, the Journal of Peasant Studies, The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, and a member of the executive committee of the C hina Quarterly.