He Jiahong, ‘the John Grisham of China’ is a crime-fiction writer and professor of criminal law at Beijing People’s University.
Karoline Kan author of Under Red Skies, is a journalist who writes about Chinese politics and history, ethnic policy and the environment, and other social issues for China Dialogue.
Vidya Krishnan is a multi-award winning independent journalist who has been reporting on India’s HIV and TB epidemics for the past two decades.
Hyeonseo Lee’s bestselling memoir, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story, has been published around the world so far in 22 languages, and counting.
Ming Liu contributes to the FT, China International Business, V and to the Asia Literary Review, et al. Her debut novel, Our Man in China, is currently on submission.
Leza Lowitz is an award-winning, multi-genre writer and Japanese-English translator whose YA novel Up from the Sea is published by Penguin Random House.
Victor Mallet, former Delhi bureau chief & Asia News editor with the FT, is nowFT's Paris bureau chief. His book, River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India’s Future immediately reached the bestseller list. Photo: Ayesha Sitara.
Jonathan Miller is the author of Duterte Harry: Fire and Fury in the Philippines and is the Channel 4 News Asia correspondent.
Mark Mobius, author of The Inflation Myth, and numerous other books, is the 'rock star' of emerging-markets and a much-lauded economic guru.
Bijan Omrani is a historian and classicist, whose work spans Asian as well as European history. Photo by Sandy Crole