Bill Bishop

Bill Bishop is a serial entrepreneur, investor, former media executive and speaker of Chinese. He started Sinocism in 2011 in Beijing, where he lived on and off over the course of 13 years starting in 1989, and then again for 10 years starting in 2005. In 1997, he co-founded MarketWatch, later acquired by CBS, and worked there until 2005. In 2012 and 2013, he wrote the China Insider column for The New York Times’ DealBook, and he is frequently quoted in major media outlets such as Bloomberg, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, the New York Times and the Guardian. In 2015, he was named to Foreign Policy’s Pacific Power Index as one of 50 people shaping the future of the U.S.-China relationship. He has an M.A. in China Studies from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. from Middlebury College. He has lived in Washington since moving back to the U.S. with his wife and two daughters in 2015.