Mark Sidel is Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been active in program activity and research on China since the early 1970s, including serving on the team that established the Ford Foundation’s presence in China in the 1980s and consulting widely with U.S. and international foundations and nongovernmental organizations on programs and operations in China since then. He has also been active in Vietnam, Thailand and Southeast Asia, heading the Ford Foundation’s program in Vietnam in the 1990s and consulting since with an array of organizations.

Sidel serves as a member of the board of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL); an elected member of the American Law Institute; Chair in Global Justice at the University of Liverpool; and in other academic, policy and consulting roles. He has written widely on philanthropy and civil society in China, India, Vietnam and the United States, and has served as visiting professor of law at Harvard, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), Melbourne and other institutions.