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Mark L. Clifford is an author, columnist, and executive director of the Hong Kong-based Asia Business Council.

Education
Clifford has a Ph.D. in history from the University of Hong Kong and a B.A. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude. he was a Walter Bagehot Fellow in Economic and Business Journalism (now the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship) at Columbia University.

Career
Prior to joining the Asia Business Council in 2007 Clifford was editor-in-chief of both of Hong Kong’s English-language newspapers (the South China Morning Post and The Standard, where he was also publisher). He previously headed BusinessWeek’s editorial operations in Asia, with overall responsibility for the magazine’s bureaus from Bombay to Tokyo. He moved to Asia in 1987 as a Seoul-based correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review. From 1992, he was a Hong Kong-based correspondent for the magazine and, later it’s business editor.

He is also a regular columnist for Forbes.com, the South China Morning Post, as well as chairman of the editorial board for the Asian Review of Books.

Author

 * The Greening of Asia (Columbia University Press), 2015
 * Troubled Tiger: Businessmen, Bureaucrats, and Generals in South Korea (M.E. Sharpe), 1994; revised 1997

Co-author

 * Through the Eyes of Tiger Cubs: Views of Asia's Next Generation (John Wiley & Sons), 2012
 * Building Energy Efficiency: Why Green Buildings Are Key to Asia's Future (Chameleon Press), 2007
 * China and the WTO: Changing China, Changing World Trade (John Wiley & Sons), 2002 (with former World Trade Organization Director-General Supachai Panitchpakdi)
 * Meltdown: Asia's Spectacular Boom and Devastating Bust (Prentice-Hall) 1999