Pete Engardio, a longtime business journalist and graduate of Central Michigan University, has been named to its journalism hall of fame.
Engardio, a 1980 graduate, worked for BusinessWeek magazine from 1985 to 2009, serving in the Atlanta bureau and in Hong Kong where he covered Asian business for six years. He moved to New York in 1996 as Asian editor and was editor of the Asian edition from 1999 to 2001.
Engardio recently formed his own company, Engardio Media, and resides in Brooklyn, NY.
He has won three Overseas Press Club awards for his Asian reporting. He also has won the George Polk, Loeb and Sigma Delta Chi awards.
He is recognized as a leading national expert on Asian business and co-authored or contributed to books on Asia and India. He has an MA from the University of Missouri and has been a Reuters Journalism Fellow at Oxford University.
Engardio was a CMU commencement speaker in May 2010.
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