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Bruce Einhorn is BusinessWeek’s Asia Economics Editor and has been based in Hong Kong since 1996. Einhorn primarily writes about science, technology, media and telecom in Greater China but has also reported from Japan, Southeast Asia, Australia and India. He is the winner of the Asia Pacific IT Press Award and two Overseas Press Club awards. Prior to landing in Hong Kong, Einhorn was BusinessWeek's Asia editor in New York. He got his start with BusinessWeek as a correspondent in Taiwan, where he also studied Chinese at National Taiwan University’s Stanford Center. A native of the Garden State, Einhorn attended Princeton University and after graduating taught English in China for a year, having received advice from a friendly professor that the first rule of life was to get out of New Jersey.

Kenji Hall is a correspondent based in BusinessWeek's Tokyo bureau, covering technology and science. He has reported from Japan for eight years. Before joining BusinessWeek in 2005, he worked for The Associated Press, a job that took him to other countries in Asia, including Korea and Indonesia. Hall has a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University and spent his early post-graduate years at a start-up biotech company in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He is a native of San Diego, California.

Ian Rowley is a correspondent based in BusinessWeek's Tokyo bureau, covering a range of beats including autos, finance, and retail. Before taking residence in Japan in 2003, he spent several years in London as a magazine writer, specializing in banking and finance. A native of the United Kingdom, he holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics.

Moon Ihlwan is the Seoul Bureau Chief for BusinessWeek magazine, a position he has held since December 1999. Moon has had a varied career spanning more than two decades Korea, as well as three-posting in Singapore with Reuters. Prior to joining BusinessWeek full-time, he served as the Seoul bureau chief for Bloomberg News. At the magazine, and online, he has tracked South Korea’s rapid industrial development, democratization and rise one of the most technologically sophisticated and wired economies on the planet. Moon lives with his wife in Seoul.

Manjeet Kripalani is BusinessWeek’s India bureau chief based in Bombay. She has covered the rise of one of the world’s most dynamic economies and 21st century outsourcing hubs for more than a decade. In addition to covering India, Manjeet has also reported from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. She holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Bombay and a MA in international affairs from Columbia University. Prior to joining the magazine, she worked for Forbes and Worth magazines, and served as the deputy press secretary for Steve Forbes during his US presidential run in 1996. Manjeet has been the recipient of the George Polk award, the Gerald Loeb award for business and financial reporting, as well as accolades from the Overseas Press Club and South Asian Journalists Association. Manjeet lives in Bombay.

Dexter T. Roberts is the Beijing bureau manager for BusinessWeek, a position he has held since August, 1998. He has reported from China for more than a decade, covering a wide range of subjects, including labor, trade, domestic politics, energy, and autos. Roberts is a two-time winner of the Overseas Press Club award for international business reporting and has received two OPC citations for excellence. He holds a bachelor's degree from Stanford University and a master of international affairs from Columbia. Roberts has studied Chinese at National Taiwan Normal University's Mandarin Training Center.

Frederick Balfour is the Asia correspondent in Hong Kong for BusinessWeek. Prior to BusinessWeek, he was deputy bureau chief for Agence France Presse in Vietnam. Balfour first came to Asia in 1986 on a McGraw-Hill Correspondent’s Fund Fellowship. Balfour received a special McGraw-Hill achievement award for covering the Iraq War, where he was embedded with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Div. He holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics, a master’s degree in journalism, and a PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

 


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