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Evelyn Cheng
Senior Correspondent at CNBCEvelyn Cheng is a CNBC.com Senior Correspondent, covering China’s economy and financial markets from Beijing.
She previously held the position of Beijing Correspondent. Prior to that, Cheng was a staff writer at CNBC’s global headquarters, where she covered daily U.S. market moves and broader market trends across both the United States and China. Before joining CNBC, she interned with several news outlets including The New York Times Shanghai Bureau and Metro New York.
Cheng holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Urban Design and Architecture Studies from New York University. She was a recipient of the Edwin Diamond Undergraduate Award, presented to the top undergraduate journalism student at NYU, and a winner of the Roy W. Howard National Collegiate Reporting Competition. Cheng was also the Editor in Chief of NYU’s Asian American interest magazine, Generasian.
Stephen McDonnell
China Correspondent at BBC NewsStephen McDonell is a journalist who has been BBC's China correspondent since 2016. He is based in Beijing. He was previously the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's China correspondent from 2006 to 2015.
McDonell has won several Walkley Awards including one for investigative journalism in 1996, for coverage of the Asia Pacific region in 2008, and for radio news reporting in 2008 about the Sichuan earthquake. He won a Logie Award for Most Outstanding TV News Coverage in 2008.
Robert Xiao
Director, Beijing of Economist Intelligence Corporate NetworkRobert Xiao is the Director of the Economist Intelligence Corporate Network (EICN) in Beijing. He is responsible for engaging in high-level dialogues with business and political leaders, providing insights on global macroeconomic trends and policy directions for Fortune 500 decision-makers to support their macro layout and business development in domestic and international markets. Prior to joining EICN, Mr Xiao held positions as a lecturer, senior lecturer, PhD supervisor, and Deputy Director of the Impact Finance Hub at Monash University and Deakin Business School in Australia.