Hannah Beech is the senior Asia correspondent for The New York Times. Previously, she was the Southeast Asia bureau chief for The Times. She lives in Bangkok and was based earlier in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong as the East Asia bureau chief for Time magazine. She has reported from more than 40 countries and territories, focusing on deep investigations and narrative enterprise. Ms. Beech has won multiple awards for her on-the-ground reporting, including Journalist of the Year from the Society of Publishers in Asia and several Human Rights Press Awards.
Her reporting has covered everything from Myanmar’s descent into civil war, a hidden AIDS epidemic in China, a nuclear meltdown in Japan and a resource curse in Mongolia to the Rohingya refugee crisis, tensions in the South China Sea and the rise of the Taliban. She was born in Hong Kong to a Japanese mother and an American father, and she speaks Japanese, Mandarin and French.
