Stephen Vines

Stephen Vines leads a double life as a journalist, writer and broadcaster, combined with running a chain of restaurants, coffee shops and canteens.

He worked for The Observer in many capacities and has also been a correspondent for the BBC, Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and The Independent.

He was the founding editor of Eastern Express, a Hong Kong daily newspaper and the founder and publisher of Spike, a pioneering political and business weekly magazine.

He is the author of several books, including:

Food Gurus, twenty people who have changed the way we eat and think about food,

Hong Kong: China’s New Colony,

The Years of Living Dangerously – Asia from crisis to the New Millennium and

Market Panic - wild gyrations, risks and opportunities in stock markets.