Tom joined Gavekal in 2014 from the South China Morning Post, where he wrote the newspaper’s flagship daily Monitor column covering business, finance and economics in Hong Kong, China and the wider world. Before joining the SCMP in 2005, Tom racked up a dozen years’ experience as a financial journalist working mainly in Europe and Asia for, among others, CNBC, the Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review. He originally began his career as an exploration geologist, until a collapse in commodity prices forced him into journalism as the traditional refuge of the otherwise unemployable.