Rebecca Fannin
Author, “Silicon Dragon,” New York, NY
Ms. Fannin is an authority on entrepreneurship, innovation and venture capital in emerging markets. Her book, Silicon Dragon (McGraw-Hill, 2008), was favorably reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times and translated into several languages. Based on her expertise, Fannin wrote a white paper on outsourcing trends for KPMG’s Thought Leadership Series.
Currently, she is a columnist and contributing writer at Forbes. During the height of the dotcom boom, Ms. Fannin was international news editor at Red Herring and, in 2003, she joined the Asian Venture Capital Journal as international editor.
Ms. Fannin’s work has appeared in Inc., Worth, Fast Company, Chief Executive, Wired, The Deal and Huffington Post, as well as Merrill Lynch and NASDAQ publications. Earlier in her career, Ms. Fannin was deputy editor at Ad Age International and editor of the Pulitzer-owned International Business.
A public speaker and guest commentator, she has given talks at leading universities, associations and clubs in Asia and North America, and has been interviewed by Fox Business News, CCTV, Sky TV as well as numerous radio shows, magazines and newspapers. She is a member of the Overseas Press Club, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club and the World Affairs Council.
Ms. Fannin is a graduate of the Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University and a recipient of an Asian studies fellowship from the Freedom Forum. She resides in New York City and San Francisco, and travels frequently to Asia.