Sheridan Prasso

Editor-at-Large, Finance (Asia-Pacific) at Bloomberg News

Sheridan Prasso is an award-winning writer, editor, and Asia specialist. She writes about global issues from cultural and business perspectives—with topics ranging from garment workers and travel destinations to chief executives, finance and investing. Her assignments have taken her across Asia and around the world, and her articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Times, Travel + Leisure, and The World Policy Journal, among other publications. Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post has called her "the new face of the old Asia hand."

Sheridan is currently based in Hong Kong as an Editor-at-Large for Bloomberg News. Previously, she spent seven years a writer and editor for FORTUNE in New York, and eight years with BusinessWeek as its New York-based Asia Editor and Senior News Editor. She served as Cambodia Bureau Chief for Agence France-Presse in the early 1990s, setting up the first permanent Western news bureau to reopen in Phnom Penh since 1975, and worked for AFP in Hong Kong, Paris, and the United Nations as an editor and correspondent. She started her career with The Associated Press, in Washington, D.C., Chicago, and New York.

She has lived in China as a Knight International Press Fellow, and in Japan as a U.S.-Japan Foundation Media Fellow. She speaks French, Spanish, Italian and basic Mandarin Chinese, as well as some Japanese and Khmer.

Sheridan holds an M.Phil. in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University, and a B.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University. She is an Associate Fellow at the Asia Society, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and the Foreign Correspondents Club of Hong Kong. She is the recipient of a Front Page Award for the best magazine feature writing of 2007 for an article on factory workers in Vietnam. She also received the Human Rights Press Award for coverage of Cambodian land mine victims, and shared in six awards, including from the Overseas Press Club, for team coverage of the Asian financial crisis and its aftermath.