Chairman
Peter Batey co-founded Vermilion Partners in 2004. He is Chairman of Vermilion Partners, and has been advising foreign companies on the development of their businesses in China since 1986, when he moved to China to help establish Arthur Andersen & Co’s presence in Beijing. He subsequently served as their Chief Representative in China.
From 1989 to 1999, he was Chairman of Batey Burn, a leading China advisory firm, which he co-founded in 1989. In 1999, he became Chairman of APCO Asia. Peter served as Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in China, 1994-1996, and co-founded the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China in 1999, serving successively as Vice President and President from 1999 to 2002. He is a Director of the LIM China Opportunities Fund, an umbrella fund with three sub-funds investing in A, B and H shares respectively. He has also served as a board director of a number of listed and private Chinese / joint-venture companies.
Peter is a member of the Board and the Executive Committee of the China Britain Business Council. He previously acted, from 2006 to 2008, as Senior Advisor to the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of London in China.
In 2004, Peter was appointed by the British Government as Chairman of the Great Britain China Centre, a non-departmental public body funded by Parliament. He graduated from Oxford University and joined Citibank in 1981. In 1982, he became political private secretary to Sir Edward Heath, the former British Prime Minister who restored diplomatic relations with China. He was awarded the OBE for services to Sino-British investment and trade in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in June 1997. Peter is based in Beijing.