Brian Bremner

Brian Bremner was named BusinessWeek's assistant managing editor of news in 2007. Previously, Mr. Bremner spent 12 years in Asia, most recently as Asian Regional Editor for both print and online.

Mr. Bremner joined BusinessWeek in 1988 as a corporate reporter in the Chicago bureau. He later moved to the New York office, where he was a staff writer and then department editor in the Corporations section. His last U.S. assignment was in Washington as part of BusinessWeek's foreign policy team. He left BusinessWeek in 1993 to join Bloomberg in Tokyo, where he was a senior editor, directing coverage of Japan's leading business stories as well as writing his own pieces. He rejoined BusinessWeek as a Tokyo correspondent in March 1995 and was named Tokyo bureau chief.

In 1994, he received an Overseas Press Club citation for his series on the tradeoff between work safety and rapid economic growth in Thailand. He is a member of the BusinessWeek Asia team that won the 1998 Overseas Press Club Morton Frank Award for Best Business Reporting from Abroad for a series of Asian Edition cover stories on "Asia in Crisis."

Mr. Bremner holds a journalism degree from Marquette University.