Richard McGregor | |
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 McGregor atPolitics and Prose in 2017 | |
| Born | 1958 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation(s) | Bureau Chief for Financial Times Journalist author |
| Known for | Journalist in the Asia Pacific region |
| Notable work | Author of Party, Secret world of CPC. |
| Website | twitter au |
Richard McGregor (born 1958) is an Australian journalist, writer, and author. He is currently working as a Senior Fellow at theLowy Institute based in Sydney, Australia. He previously was based in Japan and also other locations such as Shanghai, Taiwan, Sydney, Melbourne, Washington, D.C., and London.[1]
Richard McGregor was born inSydney, Australia.[2] He has worked as a journalist in Taiwan, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne, and was the chief political correspondent, Japan correspondent, and China correspondent forThe Australian. He also worked for theInternational Herald Tribune, theBBC and theFar Eastern Economic Review,[3] and is the former bureau chief for theFinancial Times.
McGregor wroteThe Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, published byAllen Lane fromPenguin Press in the UK andHarperCollins in the US in June 2010.[4][5][6]
He lived in London, and moved toWashington, D.C., in 2011, to be theFinancial Times bureau chief.[7][8][9]
He appeared on theCharlie Rose show on 18 January 2011 to discuss Chinese PresidentHu Jintao's visit to Washington, D.C.;[10] and on 6 September 2017 to discuss Asian, especially Chinese-Japanese, international relations, and the United States' role in Asia.
McGregor won the 2010 Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Editorial Excellence Award for reporting on theXinjiang Riots; and prior to that, the SOPA Award in 2008 for Editorial Intelligences.[3][11]
