Mark Graham is a writer and editor based in Hong Kong and Beijing who covers lifestyle, business and travel for a wide variety of publications, with a particular focus on the dynamic changes taking place in China.

Graham's feature stories have appeared worldwide in publications that include the IHT, the South China Morning Post newspaper and magazine, the Globe and Mail, Wine Spectator, the San Franciso Chronicle, Destinations, Prestige, Discovery, the in-flight magazine of Cathay Pacific and Silk Road, the in-flight magazine of Dragonair. Graham also contributes to forbestraveler.com and the up-market travel site indagare.com. In the build-up to last summer's Olympic Games in Beijing, Graham wrote extensively about the momentous changes in the capital city, with in-depth feature stories on all aspects of fast-changing Beijing ... its people, architecture, arts, lifestyle and nightlife.

Key skills

Feature writer with an eye for offbeat stories, human-interest angles and personality profiles.

Editor used to working to tight deadlines, and seeing material through from first draft to final production stages.

Business writer able to digest complex issues and explain in a highly readable style.

Book projects capable of undertaking topic-specific books from start to finish: commissioning text and pictures and seeing the book through to the final production stage.

Liaison/research on projects in China, where contacts and local knowledge are essential for outsiders. Wide-ranging contacts in major cities via First Word Media Consultancy.

Corporate projects on specialist topics for Hong Kong, and international companies.

Photographer published widely in magazines worldwide.Feature stories from all parts of Asia - in particular China and India - and a wide-ranging library of striking images. Photos syndicated worldwide by Gamma Presse Images and World Pictures.

Employment history

Freelance writer and editor
1997 - 2009

Departures
Contributed stories and essays to the Hong Kong section of recent special on China.

Emphasis Custom Media
Freelance editor responsible for commissioning, editing and final production of award-winning in-flight magazine Gulf Air. Editor during the redesign and relaunch of the magazine, which recently won an American Folio award.

South China Morning Post
Profiles of business figures, lifestyle features, travel stories.

International Herald Tribune
Regular contributor to special reports from Asia, including series of in-depth features from Beijing on the city's bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games and in-depth reports on Shanghai for the city's World Expo 2010 bid.

The Australian
Travel feature stories, with photos

Wine Spectator
Cover story on the wine industry in China, published in late 2005. Previous work includes features on a Gobi Desert wine-maker who is producing French-style vintages and Rajeev Samant, a former software engineer, who is making India 's first quality wine.

Discovery
Feature stories from Hong Kong and China.

Skyward
Regular feature stories and essays for the Japan Airlines magazine.