Mark Clifford

Mark L. Clifford is executive director of the Asia Business Council in Hong Kong, and author of The Greening of Asia: The Business Case for Solving Asia’s Environmental Emergency (Columbia University Press).

Previously he was editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post, publisher and editor-in-chief of The Standard and the Asia regional editor for BusinessWeek. Mark moved to Asia in 1987 as the Seoul, Korea correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, and later served as the magazine’s business editor in Hong Kong.

In addition to the Asia Business Council’s books on young Asians (Through the Eyes of Tiger Cubs: Views of Asia’s Next Generation) and on green buildings (Building Energy Efficiency: Why Green Buildings Are Key to Asia’s Future), Mark is co-author, with former WTO Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi, of China and the WTO: Changing China, Changing World Trade; the co-author of Meltdown: Asia’s Boom, Bust and Beyond; and the author of Troubled Tiger: Businessmen, Bureaucrats and Generals in South Korea.

Mark graduated in history (honors) from the University of California, Berkeley and was a Walter Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Hong Kong Forum, and chairman of the editorial board of the Asian Review of Books. He has lived in Hong Kong since 1992.