Ravi Velloor is Associate Editor and Senior Columnist, The Straits Times, Southeast Asia's most widely read English language newspaper. A four-decade veteran of the craft, he is a specialist in Asian geopolitics and geobusiness. Mr Velloor is a speaker and moderator at major global forums. A Jefferson Fellow, Mr Velloor is also a published author and podcaster. He was previously Foreign Editor of The Straits Times and before that, worked with Bloomberg, Time Warner and Agence France-Presse.■