Tom joined Gavekal in 2014 from the South China Morning Post, where he wrote the newspaper’s flagship daily Monitor column analyzing business, finance and economics in Hong Kong, China and the wider world. Before joining the SCMP in 2005, Tom enjoyed a varied career, including as a presenter on CNBC, contributing editor at the Wall Street Journal and lead foreign exchange analyst for Dow Jones during the Asian crisis. He originally started his working life as an exploration geologist, until a collapse in commodity prices forced him into journalism as the traditional refuge of the otherwise unemployable.