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Rob Gifford

China Editor, The Economist

An NPR Foreign Correspondent and China Editor of The Economist magazine, Rob Gifford authored the critically..

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An NPR Foreign Correspondent and China Editor of The Economist magazine, Rob Gifford authored the critically acclaimed China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power. Gifford speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese and he has traveled from Tibet to the Muslim Northwest, to the border with North Korea filing news and feature stories for NPR News. Gifford also travels widely in East Asia for NPR, covering elections in Taiwan and East Timor and diplomatic visits to North Korea, and produced a range of features on everything from Christian missionaries in Mongolia to Internet start-ups in Hong Kong.

Shortly following the events of 9/11, Gifford flew to Pakistan for the first of many reporting trips to the region. Since then, he has continued to widely report on varied Islamic issues from Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Southern Philippines.

Gifford was born and raised in the UK where he worked for three years at the BBC World Service before moving to the US in 1994 to attend graduate school. He also spent two years at NPR member station WGBH in Boston. He holds a BA in Chinese Studies from Durham University, UK, and an MA in Regional Studies (East Asia) from Harvard University.

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China Road

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Griffin Lecture 2009: Rob Gifford on China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Dr Robert Gifford - The Psychology of Climate Action and Inaction - 16 Oct 2013

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