Speaker Details
David Pilling
Asia Editor, Financial Times
David Pilling is the Financial Times' Asia Editor, appointed in 2008. He oversees the FT's coverage of the Asia region from Afghanistan to Australia, including China, India and Japan. In addition to directing the work of correspondents in the region, and overseeing the editing and commissioning teams in Hong Kong, Mr Pilling is also an Assistant Editor at the FT. He writes the editorial leaders from Asia and a weekly column on Asian business, politics and economics. Mr Pilling joined the FT in 1990 and worked on the international and main news desks in London before being posted to Santiago, Chile in 1993. Between 1994 and 1997 he was based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, before returning to London to become Acting Editor of the comment and analysis page. Between 1999 and 2002 Pilling was the global pharmaceuticals and biotechnology correspondent, covering topics from mega-pharmaceutical mergers to the scourge of Aids in Africa and the scientific race to decode the human genome. In 2002, he moved to Japan for a six-year stint as Tokyo Bureau Chief covering the Koizumi years and the beginning of the end of the Liberal Democratic Party. He has won several reporting prizes, most recently for coverage of Japan and China, both individually and as part of FT teams.
