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Finance and Economics
David P. Goldman
business editor
David P. Goldman is Deputy Editor for Business at Asia Times. He has held senior research positions at Credit Suisse, Cantor Fitzgerald and Bank of America, where he served as global head of debt research. From 2013-2016, he was a partner at Reorient Group, a Hong Kong investment bank. His current firm Macrostrategy LLC advises institutional investors. Mr. Goldman is the author of several books, including How Civilizations Die (2011) and You Will Be Assimilated: China’s Plan to Sino-Form the World (2020).
Uwe von Parpart
publisher & Editor-in-chief
Uwe von Parpart is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Asia Times. He has over three decades of experience in finance and journalism in East Asia, with stops in Tokyo, Bangkok, Hong Kong. He served as a strategist at Bank of America, Cantor Fitzgerald and Reorient Group. He is a graduate of the German Naval Academy and currently resides in Hong Kong.
William Pesek
Correspondent
William Pesek is a Tokyo-based journalist, former columnist for Barron’s and Bloomberg and author of “Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan’s Lost Decades.” His honors include the Society of Publishers in Asia awards for commentary (2011, 2018) and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers prize for commentary (2010).
Southeast Asia
Nile Bowie
Correspondent
Nile Bowie covers politics and current affairs in Malaysia, Singapore as well as regional trade, business and economics for Asia Times. Previously a columnist with the Malaysian Reserve newspaper, his journalistic work has appeared widely, including on Al Jazeera, CounterPunch and the New Straits Times, among others. He is based in Singapore.
David Hutt
Correspondent
David Hutt is a political journalist based in Europe, covering Asian geopolitics and Europe-Asian relations. He is a recognized authority on Cambodian and Vietnamese politics and economics and is currently researching a book on Vietnamese leader Nguyen Phu Trong. He is currently based in Prague, Czech Republic.
Bertil Lintner
Senior Security correspondent
Bertil Lintner is a journalist and author based in Thailand. He has covered Myanmar and regional security issues for over three decades, largely for the Far Eastern Economic Review. He has written 18 books on geopolitics, ethnic conflicts and organized crime, including Outrage: Burma’s Struggle for Democracy; Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency Since 1948; Bloodbrothers: Crime, Business and Politics in Asia; Great Game East: India, China and the Struggle for Asia’s Most Volatile Frontier; and China’s India War: Collision Course on the Roof of the World.
John McBeth
Senior Correspondent
John McBeth has lived and worked in Asia for half a century. The New Zealand native has worked as a reporter since the age of 17 and was a correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review from 1978 to 2004, heading bureaus in Thailand, South Korea, the Philippines and Indonesia along the way. He is currently based in Jakarta, where he covers Indonesia for Asia Times.
Shawn W. Crispin
Managing & Southeast Asia editor
Shawn W. Crispin has worked as a journalist and editor in Thailand for over 20 years, including as Bangkok Bureau Chief for the Far Eastern Economic Review and Wall Street Journal. He now serves as Asia Times’ Southeast Asia and Managing Editor. Mr. Crispin makes regular presentations to international banks, investment funds and think tanks on Thai politics and economics. He has a master’s degree in Southeast Asian Studies and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He speaks fluent Thai.
Richard Javad Heydarian
Correspondent
Richard Javad Heydarian is an award-winning educator, academic, columnist and policy adviser. He has lectured at Harvard, Stanford and Columbia, and contributes to the Council on Foreign Relations and Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC. He has taught political science at De La Salle and Ateneo De Manila Universities in the Philippines and is a research fellow at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. His recent books include The Indo-Pacific: Trump, China and the New Struggle for Mastery (2019) and The Rise of Duterte: A Populist Revolt Against Elite Democracy (2017).
Northeast Asia
Bradley K. Martin
Associate Editor
Bradley K. Martin is a world-renowned North Korea expert and the author of Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty. He is currently based in Japan.
China
Jeff Pao
China editor
Jeff Pao is Asia Times’ China editor. He has over 20 years experience as a reporter and editor, and is a recognized expert on Hong Kong’s politics, economy and society. He also has expertise in mainland China’s stock markets. Mr. Pao has reported from the front lines of Hong Kong’s recent protests and has interviewed key actors on both sides of the political divide. He is based in Hong Kong.
Science and Technology
Jonathan Tennenbaum
Chief Science writer
Jonathan Tennenbaum received his PhD in mathematics from the University of California in 1973 at the young age of 22. A physicist, linguist and pianist, he’s also the former editor of FUSION magazine. Mr. Tennenbaum currently lives in Berlin and travels frequently to Asia and elsewhere where he consults on economics, science and technology.