Mr. Long is a columnist for Banyan based in Singapore and The Economist Asia. He took up the post at Banyan in August 2010. Before that, he had worked in London for four years as the magazine’s Asia editor, and as South Asia bureau chief for four years in Delhi. He joined The Economist in 1995, as a Southeast Asia correspondent, based in Bangkok. In 1998, he returned to London as finance and economics editor. He had previously spent nine years with the BBC, as an analyst on East Asian affairs in London, as Beijing correspondent in 1989-91, and Hong Kong correspondent from 1993. He wrote extensively for the Guardian newspaper, and many other outlets. For a number of years he was the author of the Economist Intelligence Unit country reports on China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.