Mr. Long is “Banyan”, The Economist’s Asia columnist. He took up this post, based in Singapore, in August 2010. Before that, he worked in London for four years, as the magazine’s Asia Editor, and for four years prior to that as South Asia Bureau Chief based in Delhi. He joined The Economist in 1995, as a South-East 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. He was the Beijing correspondent from 1989-1991 and the Hong Kong correspondent from 1993. In an earlier career as an investment banker with Morgan Grenfell he worked in London and Singapore. He was educated at the University College School, London; Trinity College, Cambridge; Beijing Languages Institute; Nanjing University; and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston as a Harkness Fellow.