Jeffrey Timmermans is an associate professor and director of the undergraduate journalism program at the University of Hong Kong. He has more than two decades of experience in Asia as a financial journalist and journalism educator, having worked as a reporter in Tokyo for The Wall Street Journal and as a managing editor for Dow Jones Newswires in Hong Kong and Singapore. He also worked for Bain and Company, leading the global strategy consulting firm’s public-relations efforts in Asia, before joining the faculty of HKU’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre in 2008. Timmermans is a former governor of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Hong Kong and since 2014 has served as head of judges for the Society of Publishers in Asia Awards, the region’s preeminent awards for journalism. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Asian studies from Colgate University, a master’s in journalism from Columbia University and a doctorate from the University of Hong Kong.