Allen Wan is the Asia bureau chief for CBS MarketWatch. Before arriving in Tokyo, he worked in the New York, Washington, San Francisco and London offices as a news editor. He was former reporter for Asiaweek magazine in Hong Kong and was a correspondent and editor for Reuters in Hong Kong, China and Tokyo. He graduated cum laude in political science from Boston University and received a masters in foreign affairs from Georgetown University. He was part of the MarketWatch team that won the SABEW Best Business Reporting award and has also won awards at Reuters. He has received fellowships from the German Marshall Fund that took him across Europe, the Poynter Institute and Knight in Maryland.