Mr. Long has been “Banyan”, The Economist’s Asia columnist, based in Singapore since 2010. Before that, he had worked in London for four years, as the magazine’s Asia Editor. He joined The Economist in 1995 and has worked as South-East Asia correspondent in Bangkok, Finance and Economics editor in London and South Asia Bureau Chief in Delhi. He previously spent nine years with the BBC, as an analyst on East Asian affairs based in London, as Beijing correspondent from 1989-1991, and Hong Kong correspondent from 1993. He wrote extensively for The Guardian newspaper, and many other outlets. In an earlier career as an investment banker, with Morgan Grenfell, he worked in London and Singapore. He was educated at Trinity College in Cambridge, Beijing Languages Institute, Nanjing University, and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston. He is an Associate Fellow of Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, in London.