Victor Mallet is Asia editor of the Financial Times, based in Hong Kong. He writes editorials, columns and feature articles on a range of subjects concerning the Asia-Pacific, including security, politics, economics and business. He won the Society of Publishers in Asia award for opinion writing in both 2005 and 2006.

In 20 years at the FT, he has worked in Africa, Europe and the Middle East as well as in Asia. In 1990 he escaped from Kuwait after being one of the few foreign correspondents there when Iraq invaded. His book on the south-east Asian industrial revolution and the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, The Trouble with Tigers (HarperCollins), was published in 1999.

Born on May 14, 1960, he went to school in England and earned a degree in English language and literature from Oxford University. He is married, with two children.

Victor Mallet also writes a regular column on sailing and yachting in the Weekend FT.

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