Bio & Policy Statement from A Nominee for Correspondent Member Governor 7 Board of Governors 2015-2016

Stephen ENGLE 安允文 Affiliation: Bloomberg TV

Stephen Engle is an award-winning broadcast journalist with more than 24 years of experience communicating business, technology and general news to audiences across the Asia-Pacific region. Currently based in Hong Kong as an on-air correspondent for BLOOMBERG TELEVISION, Mr. Engle conveys breaking news on the business and financial markets of greater China and the rest of Asia. In 2013, Mr. Engle was honoured as the Best Current Affairs Presenter at the Asian Television Awards and was a finalist again in 2014. Mr. Engle's distinguished broadcasting career as anchor, reporter and producer has seen him based in Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Tokyo. Before joining BLOOMBERG TELEVISION he had worked with CNBC, CNN and NHK. Mr. Engle brings essential and dynamic insight to business persons, finance professionals, investors and other viewers on the key markets and industries throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Highlights in Mr. Engle's career include covering the visits to Asia by U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. He also has interviewed Nobel Peace Laureates Aung San Suu Kyi and Kim Dae-Jung, as well as a host of major political leaders such as the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Taiwan's Ma Ying-jeou and Chen Shui-bian, the U.K.'s Tony Blair and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Mr. Engle also has interviewed business leaders such as Ford Motor's William Ford Jr. and Alan Mulally, Virgin's Richard Branson, Toyota Motor’s Akio Toyoda, Arcelor Mittal's Lakshmi Mittal and Viacom's Sumner Redstone, among many others.

Mission Statement

Having just returned to Hong Kong from spending the last seven years in Beijing as the Bloomberg Television correspondent in China, I bring extensive knowledge of the media’s often touchy relationship with Beijing. As many of you know, I was beaten by plain-clothed (but armed) security agents on Wangfujing during the 2011 Jasmine incident. Their indefensible actions against the foreign press corps that afternoon should be, and were, roundly condemned. However, much as it pains me to say this as a journalist, shouting Beijing down will not improve the often testy relationship we have with the authorities. It will only confirm their beliefs we are enemies of China. We must use a unified voice to encourage engagement to ensure the hostility towards the media does not intensify and lead to incidents or injuries far worse than mine.