Gwen Robinson

Chief Editor
Nikkei Asian Review, Nikkei Inc.

Gwen Robinson is Chief Editor of the Nikkei Asian Review, the English-language journal and website of Nikkei Inc. She is also Senior Fellow at the Institute of Security and International Studies at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, specializing in Myanmar and the Southeast Asian region. She was previously a senior editor and correspondent at the Financial Times, from 1995 to 2013, including postings as correspondent in the FT’s Japan, Southeast Asian, New York and Washington DC bureaus and at the FT’s London headquarters, where she was the paper’s Comment editor (2003-07) and News Editor of FT.com (2001-03). In 2004, she was a senior fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney. Her last FT post was as Bangkok bureau chief covering mainland Southeast Asia. In 1993-95, she was North Asia correspondent for The Times of London, and in 1990-93 an editor/writer at the Nikkei Weekly in Tokyo. In the 1980s, she covered Southeast Asia from Manila and Bangkok for US, Australian and UK media organizations. She attended the Australian National University in Canberra in 1977-80 (BA in Asian history, sociology).