Sub-committee Members of SOPA Awards

David Plott

David Plott is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong. Plott is a specialist in business and financial journalism, with almost 20 years of experience as a reporter and editor. Prior to joining the faculty at The University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Far Eastern Economic Review. After reporting stints at the Kansas City Times and the St. Petersburg Times in the United States, he joined Dow Jones in 1987 as a Copy Editor for Dow Jones Newswires. He was transferred to Zurich a year later, where he spent six years covering business and economic issues in Europe, including OPEC and the Uruguay Round trade negotiations. He was transferred to Singapore in 1994 as News Editor, where he directed Asian energy and commodities coverage. In 1997 he set up a training program for Newswires in Asia and, in 1998, became Senior News Editor for Asia-Pacific, with responsibility for 16 bureaux in the region. He joined the Far Eastern Economic Review in January 2000 as a Managing Editor and became the Deputy Editor 18 months later. Plott has an undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley and an MA and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has taught literature and history at Harvard and at the University of Grenoble in France. His literary essays and reviews have appeared in the American Literary Almanac, Contemporary Literary Criticism, The Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Barron's, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the St. Petersburg Times, and elsewhere.