Joe Studwell has worked as a freelance writer, economist, broadcaster and speaker in Europe and Asia for 15 years. His work has appeared in publications including The Economist, titles of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the Observer Magazine, Asia Inc., as well as on television and radio. Joe was based in Hong Kong from 1990 to 1993 and in Beijing from 1993 to 2000. In the course of the 1990s he wrote or co-wrote 10 books on China under the EIU imprint. His last book, The China Dream: the Elusive Quest for the Greatest Untapped Market on Earth, was published in 2002 in Europe and Asia by Profile Books and in the United States by Grove Atlantic Press. The Financial Times concluded that The China Dream “will redefine the debate on the nature of the China market” while the Far Eastern Economic Review predicted it “will cause blushes in boardrooms around the world”. The China Dream was a bestseller in Asia and is now available in five languages. Joe has most recently publisehd a book about the changing fortunes of overseas Chinese tycoons in south-east Asia, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

In 1997, Joe founded the China Economic Quarterly (www.theceq.com), the leading journal of China’s economy, and remains its editor-in-chief. The CEQ is regularly referenced in the international business press and has biweekly and weekly opinion columns in the Financial Times (Asian edition) and the South China Morning Post respectively. The CEQ operates from bureaus in Beijing and Hong Kong. When not in Asia, Joe Studwell lives in Umbria, Italy.