Reuters Breakingviews names Peter Thal Larsen as Asia editor!

Reuters Breakingviews, the world’s leading source of agenda-setting financial insight, has named Peter Thal Larsen as Asia editor. The move is part of an expansion in the region under which John Foley, Reuters Breakingviews China editor, has relocated to Beijing.
 
Thal Larsen will lead Reuters Breakingviews seven-strong team in the region, including columnists in Hong Kong, Beijing, Mumbai and Singapore. The team will increasingly comment on big financial stories as they break during Asian trading hours, seamlessly complementing Reuters Breakingviews analysis published out of London and New York.
 
“The build-up of our Asian operations, which has been achieved from scratch in three and a half years, is a big milestone,” said Hugo Dixon, founder and editor of Reuters Breakingviews. “With columnists covering the Middle East and Latin America, it means we have largely completed our planned global footprint.”
 
“I’m thrilled to be leading such a distinguished team of columnists at such a fascinating time in Asia’s economic, financial and political development,” Peter Thal Larsen said. “I’m sure that Reuters Breakingviews distinctive brand of insight will enlighten and entertain our readers, not just in Asia but around the world.”
 
Thal Larsen was previously assistant editor in London, overseeing Reuters Breakingviews coverage of banking and financial regulation. He joined Reuters in 2009 after ten years at the Financial Times. He is expected to take up his position in late August.
 
Reuters Breakingviews, founded in 1999 by editor Hugo Dixon, was acquired by Thomson Reuters in December 2009 and is now Reuters’ brand for financial commentary. Every day, Reuters Breakingviews comments on the big financial stories as they break. The columns appear both on Thomson Reuters’ 500,000 desktops around the world and on www.breakingviews.com, a subscription website.
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