About Chris Wright

Chris Wright is a freelance journalist based in Singapore, specialising in business and financial journalism across Asia, Australia and the Middle East. He writes for publications including Euromoney, Institutional Investor, Asiamoney, the Australian Financial Review, IFR, Euroweek, Smart Investor, The Sun-Herald, The Spectator, Forbes Asia and BRW. He is also a consultant and researcher who has published comprehensive studies on the asset management industry for Cerulli Associates. Chris also writes travel and mainstream features for publications including Discovery Channel Magazine, The Australian Way and Asian Geographic. These publications have all frequently featured his photography too.

Chris has previously been the editor of Asiamoney magazine in Hong Kong, from 2000 to 2003; a section editor and writer on the Australian Financial Review newspaper in Sydney from 2003 to 2006, running the Smart Investor (now Portfolio) and Smart Money personal finance sections of the newspaper; editor of Corporate Finance magazine, first in London and then New York, from 1998 to 2000; and editor of AsiaLaw magazine in Hong Kong from 1995 to 1997.

Chris has visited over 70 countries and reported from 45. He has conducted one-on-one interviews with seven current or former prime ministers, presidents or heads of state. He has won several awards, most recently winning two of the four print categories in the Citi Journalism Awards for Excellence for 2011, which reward business journalism in Australia and New Zealand.

Chris was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside, in the UK and grew up in the area. He gained a first class honours degree in English literature at the University of Sheffield, during which time he was named runner-up in the Guardian/NUS student journalist of the year award for 1992. He is a British and Australian citizen and is married with two children.

This site

This site contains most of my published journalism since January 2008, and selected earlier articles. This site does not include large research reports for groups like Cerulli, which are sold individually – they can be accessed through www.cerulli.com. It also does not include copywriting work.

In most cases, the text on this site is as originally filed, which may differ from the published version. In many instances a link is provided to the published text, although for some publications you may need a password to access this text.

Photograph by Quinn Wright, making his photographic debut, aged 2. You should see the outtakes

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