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Economist hires Connelly as senior Asia correspondent

Michael Connelly

The Economist has hired Aaron Connelly to be its senior Asia correspondent and Asia diplomatic editor.

He will start in August and be based in Singapore.

Connelly is currently a senior fellow for Southeast Asia politics and foreign policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He played a key part in the organization of the Shangri-La Dialogue and setting the Institute’s research agenda on Southeast Asia.

During his time at the IISS, he has launched two major new initiatives: the Myanmar Conflict Map, an interactive platform for data visualization and analysis of the ongoing conflict in Myanmar; and the annual Singapore Simulation, a two-day crisis workshop designed to test multilateral diplomatic responses to a range of geopolitical scenarios.

He holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Georgetown University.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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