Editorial Committee Members
Yi-Shan Chen
Editor-in-Chief,
CommonWealth Magazine
Chia Chang
Senior Reporter, United Daily News
Chia Chang is Senior Reporter for United Daily News. She is responsible for coverage of political issues and events, specializing in foreign affairs, US-Taiwan relations, and international economics.
Chia joined United Daily News Group in 2012 and has held various positions. She was Washington Correspondent from 2016 to 2020, covered Congress, the White House, the State Department and other government agencies of the United States. She previously served as reporter and anchor for UDN TV.
Rich Barbieri
Deputy Editor,
Asia Business and Economics
The New York Times
Deputy Editor
Asia Business and Economics
The New York Times
Rich Barbieri is a deputy editor at The New York Times overseeing Asia business and economics coverage.
Previously, Rich was the executive editor of CNN Business where he oversaw digital coverage and newsgathering for CNN’s worldwide coverage of brands, media, markets, economics, technology and personal finance. He managed a team of more than 60 reporters and editors around the world across platforms. He also oversaw CNN MoneyStream, CNN Business’ new personalized business news app. He previously served as the managing editor at CNN Business and joined CNN in September 2007.
Prior to joining CNN, he worked for 15 years at American Lawyer Media. Rich also worked as New York news editor at the Associated Press and as managing editor of Crain’s New York Business. He won an AP reporting award in 1992 for coverage of California’s first execution in decades, and his newsrooms have won more than 100 editorial and design awards from local and national journalism organizations.
Patrick Barta
The Wall Street Journal
PATRICK BARTA
Asia Enterprise Editor, The Wall Street Journal
Patrick Barta is the Asia Enterprise Editor for The Wall Street Journal, managing major features projects and investigations in the region. Previously he was the Southeast Asia Bureau Chief for the Journal overseeing coverage of the 10-country ASEAN region, and also a regional economics and natural resources reporter based in Bangkok. Before moving to Asia he was part of the Journal’s U.S. economics team in New York, specializing in coverage of the U.S. property market and the 2000s-era housing bubble. He began his career at the Journal in 1997 as a real estate and agriculture reporter based in Houston, Tex. A native of Dallas, Mr. Barta received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a master’s degree from the Columbia University School of Journalism in New York.
Lulu Chen
Asia Finance, Investing & Wealth,
Bloomberg News
Lulu Chen
Investing & Real Estate Team Leader, Bloomberg Asia
Lulu is a multi-time SOPA award co-winner; one of the esteemed judges of the SOPA 2022 Awards; and, the author of “Influence Empire: The Story of Tencent and China’s Tech Ambition“.
Karl Malakunas
Agence France-Presse
Karl Malakunas
Asia-Pacific Deputy Editor in Chief
Agence France-Presse
Anne Marie Roantree
Hong Kong,
Reuters News
BILL RIDGERS
Asia Digital Editor, The Economist
Bill Ridgers is The Economist’s Asia Digital Editor, responsible for the Asia newsdesk in Hong Kong. He regularly contributes articles to The Economist on big global topics, as well as on arts and sport. He was previously co-editor of the Espresso daily news-briefing app. Before that he was the business education editor at The Economist, editor of the Gulliver business-travel blog and deputy editor of “The World in” periodical. Prior to joining the newspaper, he was the editor of the long-running “Which MBA?” guide and was the chief travel and tourism analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). At the EIU he also edited the cost of living survey and devised its liveability rankings. He has written papers on talent management, education and the cost of doing business, and has published a book of business quotations.
Bill Ridgers
The Economist
YI-SHAN CHEN
Editor-in-Chief, CommonWealth Magazine
With a background in economics, Yi-Shan began her career in 1996 at CommonWealth before later joining the China Times (2004~2008). In her early career, Asia financial crisis brought her long term concern on financial reform, tax evasion, capital turbulence and inequality of globalization. She earned the master degree of economic policy management, a special program sponsored by World Bank/ IMF in Columbia University.
Since 2013, she participated several international cooperation projects of International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, including Offshore leaks, Panama paper, Paradise and Fake Science projects. She became the member of ICIJ on 2014.
She currently oversees CommonWealth Online news and financial news desk. Also she teaches in J-Scool of National Taiwan University.
Kit Tang
Anne Marie Roantree
Bureau Chief, Hong Kong, Reuters News
Anne Marie is Bureau Chief of Reuters in Hong Kong. She took up the post in the spring of 2014, having helped run the bureau from mid-2012 as chief correspondent and acting bureau chief. In her first year as bureau chief, she oversaw coverage of the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong which won an award in the Breaking News category at the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) for that year. She was also awarded the Reuters Editor of the year award for 2014. Anne Marie joined Reuters in 2002 in Singapore, where she worked as an editor on the company news desk, having previously worked at the Irish Times in Dublin and South China Morning Post in Hong Kong.
James Wilson
Financial Times
Kit Tang
Executive Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek (Chinese) 彭博商業周刊 / 中文版
Kit Tang is the Executive Editor of Bloomberg Businessweek(Chinese)彭博商業周刊/中文版, a Chinese biweekly which was launched in June 2013 and built on the agreement between Bloomberg LP and Hong Kong-listed Modern Media.
Kit has joined Bloomberg Businessweek (Chinese) for 6 years, covering stories on business trends and social issues. A story on Hong Kong housing issue from her team has won a Society of Publishers in Asia award for feature story 2019.
Before that, she was in the business team of Next Magazine and Hong Kong Economic Times, covering investigative stories on Hong Kong-listed companies, global market trends and central banks and monetary policy.
Kit holds a bachelor degree in School of Journalism in Chinese University of Hong Kong and a master degree in International and Public Affairs in University of Hong Kong.
Chris Yeung
Veteran Journalist
Harry Surjadi
Head of Judges for the Bahasa Indonesia category
Science Journalist
A journalist in Indonesia. He is a science journalist who specializes on environmental issues for more than 25 years. He is passionate in developing the citizen journalism movement, including building capacity in writing skills and media engagement. He has been providing training and workshops on environmental/science journalism, environmental communications, and media training in Indonesia, the regions and global (Philippines, Laos, Timor Leste, Malaysia, Cambodia, Ukraine, US, etc.). He received the Knight International Journalism Fellowship from the International Center for Journalists two times. He developed the communication strategy plan for several institutions. He founded TempoWitness, a citizen journalism channel at Tempo.co. He is also a specialist on personal branding and nonprofit branding.
Harry Surjadi
Environmental Journalist and Trainer