Derek Wallbank is a senior editor at Bloomberg in Singapore, covering breaking news during Asia market hours. He has led Bloomberg’s breaking news coverage across the biggest events of the last few years, including the 2016 election, the rise of the U.S.-China trade war and the failed Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi. Wallbank is also a frequent commenter on geopolitical risk and trade tensions for Bloomberg Television and Radio. Before moving to Asia earlier this year, Wallbank ran Bloomberg’s breaking news desk in Washington, covering up-to-the second news from the White House, Congress, U.S. foreign policy officials, regulatory agencies and elections. A former chairman of the board of the National Press Club in Washington, Wallbank was a National Press Foundation Paul Miller Fellow in 2009-10.