Joe Studwell

Joe Studwell has worked as a writer, journalist and broadcaster around the world. His journalism has appeared in publications including The Economist, titles of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), The Financial Times, the Asian Wall Street Journal, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the Observer Magazine, and Asia Inc., as well as on television and radio.

Joe was based in China through the 1990s, where he wrote or co-wrote 10 books under the EIU imprint. These include the best-sellers Multinationals in China: Winners and Losers and Operating in China: a Survivor's Manual. His China Dream: the Quest for the Greatest Untapped Market on Earth, published in Europe and Asia by Profile Books and in the United States by Grove Atlantic Press, was said by The Financial Times to "redefine the debate on the nature of the China market." After publication of Joe's latest book, Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and South-East Asia, the same newspaper declared: "Joe Studwell should be named chief myth-buster for Asian business... his myth-busting is as merciless as it is enlightening." The Wall Street Journal called Asian Godfathers, published in 2007, simply "a blast" and named it one of the year's ten best books on Asia. Business Week named Asian Godfathers one of the world's 10 best business books.

Joe is currently working on a pan-Asian book about the myths and realities of the region's developmental and business successes, from Japan to China to India. From 1997 to 2007, he was the editor and later editor-in-chief of the China Economic Quarterly (CEQ), the leading journal of the Chinese economy and foreign investment in China, as well as a director of the Asian advisory firm Dragonomics (www.dragonomics.net). Joe gave up these positions in 2007 to concentrate full time on academic research and teaching, book writing and public speaking. He travels widely and teaches at various universities.