Bio
Christine Y. Chen joined Foreign Policy magazine in 2005 as a senior editor responsible for commissioning and editing reviews, feature articles, and essays. Prior to joining FP, she was a writer-reporter at Fortune magazine, where she focused on the technology, telecommunications and media industries. She also contributed to Fortune’s sister magazines, Business 2.0 and FSB: Fortune Small Business . Her work has appeared in publications as diverse as The New Republic and Budget Travel. Before joining Fortune, she worked at Newsweek International as an editorial liaison for the magazine’s foreign language editions. She also reported on a wide range of topics for both the magazine’s online and print editions.
In addition to her numerous written articles, Ms. Chen has provided radio and television commentary for news organizations such as CNN. She was an Asia Foundation Freeman Fellow in 2002. She received an M.S. in international relations as a Fulbright scholar at the London School of Economics and a B.A in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and also studied abroad in Germany and Finland. She is the only person on the FP staff who can order from menus in English, Finnish, French, German, and Taiwanese.