Michael Forsythe

Michael Forsythe is a reporter on the investigations team at The New York Times. Until February 2017 he was a correspondent in the Hong Kong office, focusing on the intersection of money and politics in China.

Until 2013 he was a reporter at Bloomberg News in Beijing and Washington and was part of a team that won the George Polk Award in 2013 for a series that exposed the fortunes of the elite families of China’s Communist Party.

Mr. Forsythe is a veteran of the U.S. Navy, where he served on ships in the Seventh Fleet. He is a graduate of Georgetown University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in international economics, as well as Harvard University, where he obtained a master’s degree in East Asian studies.