About Sheridan Prasso

Sheridan Prasso is an award-winning writer, editor and international specialist. She writes about global issues from cultural, travel and business perspectives—with topics ranging from the glamour of chief executives and exotic destinations to the grit of red light districts and garment factories. Her reportage has taken her across Asia and the world, from China and Japan to India and Indonesia; her expertise in the region has led to guest lectures at the world's top universities, appearances on television networks such as CNN International and ABC of Australia, and interviews with notable figures including Nobel Peace Prize winners Aung San Suu Kyi and Muhammad Yunus. Sheridan's articles have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The New York Times, Travel + Leisure, The Los Angeles Times, and The World Policy Journal, among other publications. The South China Morning Post has called her "the new face of the old Asia hand."

Currently she is a Contributing Editor at FORTUNE magazine, and takes on editing, book project and consulting assignments.

Sheridan is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and an Associate Fellow at the Asia Society. Her book, The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls & Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient, published in paperback in May 2006 by PublicAffairs, received wide acclaim and climbed several best-seller lists.

Sheridan Prasso

She has been writing and editing for FORTUNE since 2004. Sheridan previously spent eight years with BusinessWeek as its New York-based Asia Editor and as a Senior News Editor. She served as Cambodia Bureau Chief for Agence France-Presse (AFP) from 1991 to 1994, setting up the first permanent Western news bureau to reopen in Phnom Penh since 1975. She also worked in Hong Kong as an Asia Regional Correspondent, in Paris as a Europe/Africa Editor, and as a United Nations Correspondent for AFP. She started her career with The Associated Press (AP) in Washington, D.C. and Chicago, and later worked as an AP Business Writer.

She has lived in Japan as a U.S.-Japan Foundation Media Fellow, and in China as a Knight International Press Fellow. She speaks French, Spanish, Italian and basic Mandarin Chinese, as well as some Japanese and Khmer.

Sheridan holds an M.Phil. in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University, and a B.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University. She is active in the Council on Foreign Relations, the Asia Society, the Japan Society, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and the Overseas Press Club.

She is the recipient of a Front Page Award for the best magazine feature writing of 2007 for an article on factory workers in Vietnam. She also received the Human Rights Press Award for coverage of Cambodian land mine victims, and shared in six awards for team coverage of the Asian financial crisis and its aftermath.

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