Philip Bowring

PHILIP BOWRING has been writing a regular editorial page commentary on Asian and international economic affairs for the International Herald Tribune for the past fourteen years. He also writes opinion pieces for other publications such as the South China Morning Post and Time, and acts as an independent consultant on Asian financial and public policy issues for corporations and research organizations, including Oxford-Analytica and Research-Works.

He is a founder and consulting editor of www.asiasentinel.com, a new Asian news and analysis website. He was strategy consultant to Dresdner Kleinwort Benson Securities (Asia) from 1994 to 1999 and was editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review w from 1988 to 1992.

From 1979 to 1981, he was Southeast Asia correspondent of the Financial Times. He previously worked in Australia as a writer for Finance Week and correspondent for various overseas publications, including Business Week and the Guardian.

Before that, he was a freelance journalist in Africa and a writer for the Investors Chronicle in London. He has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Cambridge University.