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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."
Based in New York, she contributes to a number of magazines and
newspapers including FORTUNE and The New York Times, and
takes on editing, book project and consulting assignments.
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 spent four years with FORTUNE as a contributing editor and
writer on international issues, and 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 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 The 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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