Jennifer Hughes is Reuters’ Asia Finance Editor, leading a team of reporters covering capital markets, dealmaking, banking and regulation across the region. She took up the role in November 2017 after an 18-year career at the Financial Times which involved stints in London, New York and Hong Kong, including as a Lex columnist, and reporting on topics ranging from capital raising, accounting and regulation to M&A and banking. Ms. Hughes has a BA in History from the University of Exeter and won a Knight-Bagehot fellowship to study at Columbia University, where she earned an MSc in Journalism studying alongside the MBA class.