About the Speaker

Mark Galasiewski lived in Japan for most of the 1990s. A graduate of Middlebury College (Vermont, USA) in East Asian studies, he is fluent in Japanese and conversant in Mandarin Chinese. In his monthly commentaries, Mr. Galasiewski not only discovers opportunities in Asian-Pacific markets, but also shows how cultural and political events relate to financial trends in the region. He has traveled to many of the countries he writes about, including Japan, China, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Egypt, and Jordan.