Global Telecom & IT
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Kenneth Cukier
Japan Business & Finance Correspondent,
The Economist
Speaker | ModeratorKenneth Cukier is a respected authority on technology and telecoms, and an award-winning business correspondent at The Economist. Since May 2007, he has been based in Tokyo, having previously worked in London, Paris and Hong Kong, and has reported from more than 25 countries on four continents. He focuses on cloud computing, new mobile services, social media, the promise and perils of “big data”, as well as innovation, intellectual property, Internet regulation and future IT trends. He is a frequent guest on BBC television and radio to comment on global business trends.
Mr Cukier regularly delivers keynote speeches, actively moderates panels and MCs various conferences around the world. Recent ones include The World Economic Forum’s “Summer Davos” in China, where he facilitated a major session on cloud computing. Others include the 3GSM World Congress (Barcelona), The World Communications Awards, (London), Oxford Internet Institute (UK), The Entrepreneur's Organisation (Kuala Lumpur), The UN World Summit on the Information Society (Geneva and Tunis), and World Economic Forum regional summits in South Korea and Hong Kong.
He is one of the most popular and highly-rated speakers at conferences organised by The Economist. He has also served as an after-dinner speaker at privately arranged client and internal meetings, including by McKinsey & Company, IBM, Accenture and Eversheds law firm. His speciality is helping executives think in new ways.
Beyond his work at The Economist, Mr Cukier’s writings have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Prospect and elsewhere. He has been a commentator on CBS, CNN, CNBC and NPR’s Market Place. In 2002-04 he was a Research Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, where he worked on a book about the Internet and international relations. In 2004-09 he served as a Judge (and for many years Chairman of the Jury) of The World Communications Awards, organised by TotalTele.com in London.
Mr Cukier has covered technology for more than 15 years. Previously, he was the Technology Editor of The Wall Street Journal Asia based in Hong Kong, European Editor of Red Herring and worked at The International Herald Tribune in Paris. Additionally, he serves on the board of advisors to the Daniel Pearl Foundation and on the board of directors of International Bridges to Justice, which fosters legal rights in the developing world. He is also a board director of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan.