MARK L. CLIFFORD is president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong, the former executive director of the Asia Business Council, and a former board member at Next Digital. He is editorial chair of the
Asian Review of Books, and served as editor in chief of both English-language papers in Hong Kong,
The Standard and the
South China Morning Post. An honors history graduate of UC Berkeley and a Walter Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University, he holds a
Ph.D. in Hong Kong history from the University of Hong Kong.
