Professional Affiliation

Former Asia bureau chief for Cox Newspapers and Newsweek China correspondent

Expert Bio

Craig Simons was the Asia bureau chief for Cox Newspapers from 2005 until 2009 and before that wrote about China and Asia for Newsweek, Reuters, and other publications. He first moved to China as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1996. In 2009, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. During the summer of 2011, he was a public policy scholar at the China Environment Forum.