Jonathan Watts

Jonathan Watts is Asia Environment Correspondent for The Guardian and a former president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China.

Watts' multimedia career includes seven years in Japan, five trips to North Korea, the 2004 tsunami, the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and Beijing Olympics. He has worked for BBC, CNN, Mother Jones, Christian Science Monitor, South China Morning Post, Daily Yomiuri and Asahi Shimbun. In his current post, he has covered the Copenhagen climate conference, renewable energy developments and more rubbish dumps than he cares to remember.

For more information about his book and related multimedia: http://site.whenabillionchinesejump.com

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