Bio

Michael Zielenziger is managing editor of thought leadership for Oxford Economics a UK-based economic and research consultancy. For many years he was a foreign and national correspondent for Knight Ridder Newspapers.He is author of Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created its own Lost Generation, which he wrote while a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. He was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for his writing about China, and was based for many years in Tokyo.