Ben O'Neill

Ben is the deputy managing editor in our London bureau, helping manage the reporting team and editing stories across the range of MLex services. He joined MLex in 2017 after two decades as a newspaper journalist. After starting on regional papers in the UK, he moved to Asia, spending eight years as an editor and then Production Editor at the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, followed by eight years in Indonesia. There he helped launch the Jakarta Globe and served as Managing Editor, followed by several years as a consultant editor for news media and company investor relations before he moved back to the UK. He has an MA in Classics from the University of St Andrews.