Region

Europe

Job Title

Journalist

Media Category

Newspaper, Radio, Online, Print

Name/s of media you are currently involved with

The Spectator, Euromoney, Huffington Post, Barrons, The Times, Emerging Markets, Asiamoney, India Today, Far Eastern Economic Review, Foreign Affairs, Financial Times, Economist, BBC World, BBC World Service.

Personal or Professional Website

http://www.elliotjameswilson.com

What do you hope to gain from this community?

To know Europe better. To understand a continent and how it works, in a better way - I know Asia far more, having worked in China and India for years, but I am back in London now and I am seeking to understand my home continent better.

Tell us a little bit about yourself

I am a freelance financial/business reporter and journalist, and a language lover, speaking German, Chinese and Russian in addition to English. I have worked as a reporter in Duesseldorf, London, Almaty, Beijing, Hong Kong, Mumbai and Moscow, and spent nearly a decade working in Asia. I studied German, Russian and economics in Hull, Berlin and Budapest before graduating and going to work in London for an e-business publication in 1998. I then worked for Handelsblatt in Duesseldorf, Germany, before heading to Beijing to work, for the state radio service, CRI, then for the Chinese service of AFX-Asia. I have been a freelance writer for the past five and a half years, writing for the abovesaid publications, travelling widely across Asia, Central Asia and Europe, covering global events from the continent such as the IMF-World Bank Meetings and the annual EBRD meeting, the latter for Emerging Markets magazine.