Meet the CFO Asia
Editorial Team
Part of The Economist Group, CFO
Asia is a monthly magazine written for chief financial
officers, treasurers and controllers. In all, there are four
editions in the CFO family of magazines: CFO
Asia, CFO in the US, CFO Europe, and
CFO China. The four magazines have a combined readership
of more than one million senior finance executives.
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Tom Leander
Editor-in-Chief
Tom Leander was appointed editor-in-chief
of CFO Asia magazine in December 2001, after
serving as deputy editor since November 1999. He has
covered CFO stories across Asia, from profiling top
CFOs in China to exploring how one CFO successfully
fought local unions by teaching finance to coal miners
in a mine north of Hyderabad. Leander’s story,
“The Great Debate,” the first cover to be
published globally by all three CFO magazines,
won an award for feature writing from the American Society
of Business Publications Editors for 2001.
Leander previously worked at Global
Finance magazine in New York as managing editor,
and traveled frequently to Asia to cover the market's
boom and subsequent collapse. Prior to that, he worked
with Stern Stewart & Co., the creator of economic
value added. He was vice president of the EVA Institute,
a forum for EVA companies. He started his career in
journalism as the northeast bureau reporter for American
Banker, a daily newspaper based in New York, covering
mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. |
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Don Durfee
Managing Editor
Don Durfee has been CFO Asia's managing editor since January 2007. He joined CFO Asia after several years with CFO magazine in New York, where he served as research editor. During his time at CFO, Don wrote award-winning features on diverse topics, ranging from executive compensation to the financial problems confronting American cities. He also spearheaded the magazine's editorial research, designing surveys on topics such as CFOs' struggles to maintain a work/life balance and the financial motives behind corporate political campaign donations. Additionally, he organized the global expansion of the Duke University/CFO magazine Business Outlook Survey, a quarterly economic forecast used by the US Federal Reserve, economists, and corporations.
Prior to his time at CFO, Don was a senior editor with the Economist Intelligence Unit in New York. Before that he served as the managing editor of the Alliance Analyst, a fortnightly newsletter examining joint ventures and partnerships. Don has degrees in history, music, and international economic policy. |
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Jennifer Lee
Contributing Editor
Jennifer Lee joined The Economist
Intelligence Unit in Hong Kong in 1997 as an assistant
editor at China Hand, and eventually joined CFO Asia as Contributing Editor. At CFO Asia, Jennifer writes
Grapevine, manages the Business Outlook Survey, and
reads every story front to back to
make sure each issue is in pristine condition before
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Cesar Bacani
Contributing Editor
Cesar Bacani wrote The China
Investor: Getting Rich with the Next Superpower
(John Wiley & Sons, 2003) and is currently at work
on his second book on stockmarket investing. He is a
partner with editorial-services company The Editors
Group in Hong Kong and a contributing editor for CFO
Asia and CFO China. He was an editor for
14 years with Asiaweek, where he developed
the magazine’s Best Universities and Best MBA
Schools surveys, supervised the Asiaweek Financial 500
and Asiaweek 1000 listings, and launched the personal
investing section. |
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