Robyn Meredith

Robyn Meredith

Senior Editor of Asia and the Foreign Correspondent for Forbes Magazine, Robyn Meredith is a NYT bestselling author of The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What it Means for All of Us. She is a weekly globalization and geopolitics columnist for Forbes.com's "Off Shore" column.


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Robyn Meredith is a Hong Kong-based correspondent for Bloomberg Television, covering business and financial news across the Asia-Pacific region. A seasoned business journalist with a decade's experience reporting on Asia and global economic trends, Meredith is also the author of the 2007 New York Times best-seller, "The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us."

Prior to joining Bloomberg Television in January 2011, Meredith served as Senior Editor, Asia for Forbes, also based in Hong Kong. Meredith joined Forbes in April 2000 as the magazine's Detroit Bureau Chief and moved to Hong Kong in 2001. For Forbes, Meredith wrote cover stories on General Motors, Microsoft, Sony, Kodak, Toyota, Philips, Ratan Tata, Li & Fung, and Infosys. One of her articles was included in the 2002 Edition of the book "The Best Business Stories of the Year."

Before joining Forbes, Meredith spent five years covering Detroit for The New York Times. She has also written for USA Today and American Banker, where her reporting exposed a pattern of insider deals at savings and loans that led to four Congressional hearings and an overhaul of U.S. banking regulations governing initial public offerings.

Meredith received a B.A., cum laude, in English Literature from Boston University and spent the 1998-1999 academic year as a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan Business School.

How to Win in the World's ONLY Big Growth Markets
The road to recovery leads to Asia, with China leading the world out of recession. Today, China and India are the world's only large, fast-growing economies, while the U.S., European and Japanese economies are becalmed in the doldrums. Forward-thinking companies and investors looking for growth are targeting largely untapped markets in China and India, with more and more companies earning bigger profits in Asia than at home. But to prosper, business leaders must understand how to do business there.

Robyn Meredith shares:
- How to profit from Asia's astonishingly fast rebound
- How fast-growing China and India are key to revenue growth and cost-cutting
- How smart companies are harnessing the complementary strengths of China and India
- Just how vast the Chinese and Indian middle classes have become, how fast they continue to grow, and why that is crucial to future profitability
- How successful companies use their China and India operations to drive innovation on the cheap

All You Need to Know about India and China
The fact that these two giants are embracing globalization and capitalism represents a seismic shift in business and politics. Robyn Meredith calls this "Tectonic Economics." The West must understand the changes at hand to thrive in this new world order.

You'll learn from this speech:
- How the most important business revolution in a century is connecting China and India to the West
- How China has just gone through a fast-tracked Industrial Revolution, transforming a land of inefficient farms into a nation of modern factories
- How India, a service-industry powerhouse, has other unseen strengths
- How leaders can harness these powerful forces of change to help navigate the challenges of globalization

America's Urgent Competitiveness Challenge
The powerful rise of China and India has Americans worried - and it should. But far from despairing about the arrival of the new economic leviathans, the U.S. needs to unlock its own massive potential with a fresh sense of urgency.

You'll learn:
- How the rise of China and India has created a global job market
- That colleges in China and India are already churning out more than twice as many graduates as the U.S.
- How "disassembly lines" are connecting American stores to Asian workers
- Steps Americans can take to compete more aggressively
- How the bulk of China's economic muscle actually belongs to Westerners
- If India and China can change themselves this dramatically, then so can the United States of America

The New Silk Road leads to the Gulf Countries
India and China are linked by extensive - and fast-increasing - trade with the Mid-East, repeating history and reshaping the global economy. Oil and natural gas are flowing from the Gulf to Asia even as workers from India and infrastructure expertise from China are increasingly found in the countries of the Persian Gulf. Geopolitics is shifting as a result.

Read Robyn Meredith's weekly Forbes.com webcast on Asian Business News

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