Nayan Chanda is Editor-at-Large of the Far Eastern Economic Review. He has been on the staff of the Review since 1974, assuming the editorship of the magazine in 1996. He was appointed to his current position in 2000. He will be joining Yale's Center for the Study of Globalization on July 1 as Director of Publications.

In 1974, Mr. Chanda was appointed Indochina Correspondent of the Review in Saigon. Following the fall of South Vietnam he moved his base of operations to Hong Kong, where the Review is headquartered. In 1980, Mr. Chanda was appointed as the magazine's Diplomatic Correspondent, then as Washington correspondent from 1984 to 1989. In 1989-90 Mr. Chanda was a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. Before returning to Hong Kong in 1992, he was editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, published from New York.

Mr. Chanda is the author of Brother Enemy: The War After the War (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986). He is also the co-author and contributor to ten other books on war, conflict, reconstruction, and foreign policy. A contributing editor to Foreign Policy, he is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for International Development at Harvard University and of the Advisory Council for the Brookings Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies. He holds a First Class Master's degree in history from Jadavpur University in India.

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