Jonathan Fenby

Jonathan Fenby, CBE (born 11 November 1942) is China Chairman and Managing Director, European Politics at the research service TSLombard. He was previously a founding partner and managing director of the China team at Trusted Sources ^[1] an emerging markets research and consultancy firm headquartered in London before it merged with Lombard Street Research in 2016. His investment and strategy research is focused towards policy interpretation, politics and broader political economy including East Asian politics and strategy.^[2] He is also an author and journalist.^[3]

Education

Fenby was educated at King Edward VI School, Birmingham and at Westminster School, an independent school for boys in central London, followed by New College at the University of Oxford.^[4]

Career

Fenby joined Reuters in 1963, becoming editor in 1973 and remained there until 1977, becoming the Paris bureau chief for five years. He became chief correspondent for The Economist in both Paris and Bonn (1981–86) and wrote three books during that period. He then became home editor of The Independent (at launch 1986–8), and then deputy editor of The Guardian (1988–93), followed by the editorship of The Observer from 1993 to 1995^[4] and then of the South China Morning Post from 1995 to 2000 during the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty.

Since returning to London from Hong Kong in 2000, Fenby has worked at various on-line services and as associate editor of the newspaper Sunday Business. Between 1998 and 2017, he published 19 books, nine on China and others on the Second World War and France. He contributes to publications in the UK, US and Far East and broadcasts,^[5] as well as speaking at conferences and lecturing at universities and public forums on China.

Fenby was appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2000 New Year Honours List for services to journalism, and was appointed a Knight of the French National Order of Merit in 1991, and then of the French Légion d'honneur. He is on the advisory board of OMFIF where he is regularly involved in meetings regarding the financial and monetary system. He is an Associate Fellow of the London School of Economics (LSE), the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and the Royal Institute of International Events (Chatham House).

His family was brought up in London mostly. He is married to Renee with whom he has had two children, Sara and Alexander. They are now grandparents to five grandchildren, Alice, Max, Lola, Kate and Ella.

Publications

• On the Brink: The Trouble with France. Little, Brown. 1998. ISBN 0316646652.
• Dealing with the Dragon: A Year in the New Hong Kong. New York: Arcade Publishing. 2001. ISBN 978-1-55970-559-2.
• Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the China He lost, Free Press, 2003. ISBN 9780743231442.
• The Sinking of the Lancastria: Britain's Worst Naval Disaster and Churchill's Cover-up, Carroll & Graf, 2005. ISBN 9780786715329.
• Alliance: The Inside Story of How Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill Won One War and Began Another. MacAdam Cage. 2006. ISBN 9781596922532.
• The Seventy Wonders of China, Thames & Hudson, 2007. ISBN 9780500251379
• Dragon Throne: the imperial dynasties of China (with Alexander Monro, Luke Hambledon), Quercus, 2008, ISBN 9781847244062
• The History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, Penguin Press and Harper Collins, 2008. ISBN 978-0-7139-9832-0
• The General: Charles de Gaulle and The France He Saved, Simon and Schuster, 2010. ISBN 978-1-84737-392-2
• Tiger Head, Snake Tails: China today, how it got there and where it is heading, Simon & Schuster, 2012. ISBN 9781847373939
• The siege of Tsingtao. Penguin UK. 2014. ISBN 9780857977830.
• Will China Dominate the 21st Century?, Polity, 2014 second edition 2016 ISBN 978-0745679266
• France on the brink: a great civilization in the new century (2nd ed.). New York: Arcade Publishing. April 2014. ISBN 978-1-62872-317-5.
• The History of Modern France, Simon & Schuster, 2015. ISBN 1471129292

External links

• Jonathan Fenby's China blog

References