Board Member

“As the horrors of 2009 in Sri Lanka recede further into the past, it is important to keep hold of the ideals of peace and national reconciliation, and to resist any drift into a partisan rewriting of history, a majoritarian corruption of democracy and the rejection of universal standards of human rights and dignity.”

Simon Long

He is editor-at-large at The Economist, where he has worked since 1995 in a variety of roles, including Asia editor, finance editor, international editor, South Asia bureau chief based in Delhi, South-East Asia correspondent in Bangkok and, for six years in Singapore, author of the Banyan column on Asian affairs. He was previously a reporter at the BBC World Service for ten years, based in London, Beijing and Singapore. In a previous career, he was a merchant banker for nine years with Morgan Grenfell in London and Singapore.