Speaker Details
David Pilling
Asia Editor, Financial Times
David Pilling became the Financial Times' Asia Editor, based in Hong Kong, in September 2008. Prior to taking up his appointment, Mr Pilling was the FT's Tokyo Bureau Chief, a post he took up in January 2002. Previous to this, he was pharmaceuticals correspondent for three years. Between 1994 and 1998 he was Deputy Features Editor, and before that the Argentina correspondent and Santiago correspondent. Mr Pilling joined the Financial Times in 1990. Before joining the FT, he was chief sub-editor at the African Economic Digest. Mr Pilling graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1986 with an English degree. He gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism the following year at City University, London. He was the winner of the Observer Young Travel Writer of the Year in 1989.
