Gwen Robinson is Editor-at-Large of the Nikkei Asian Review, an English-language journal and website focused on Asian affairs, and is also Senior Fellow at the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. For nearly two decades she was a senior correspondent and editor with the Financial Times in Europe, Asia and the US (1995-2013), most recently as Bangkok bureau chief covering Southeast Asia from 2011 to 2014.

Before joining the FT she was Tokyo-based correspondent for The Times of London 1993-95 and in 2004 was a Senior Fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney. In the 1980s, she covered Southeast Asia for various US, British and Australian publications. She is also currently President of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand.

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