Asia Editor, The Economist
Dominic Ziegler joined The Economist in 1986 as a financial reporter. He went on to become Finance Editor, then Washington Correspondent from 1991-94. He was the newspaper’s China Correspondent from 1994-2000, based first in Hong Kong and then Beijing. He went back to London as Finance and Economics Editor in 2001. In 2004 he returned to the United States as an acting Washington Correspondent, and after that stood in for half a year as editor of the Books and Arts section, before serving as Deputy Editor of Intelligent Life, an Economist publication. Mr Ziegler was Tokyo Bureau Chief from 2005-09 and then founding author of The Economist’s Banyan column on Asian affairs, before returning to London in late 2010 to take up the position of Asia Editor.