Jean-Francois joined the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at HKU in 2025. For most of his career, he was a business and technology journalist covering industries including pharmaceuticals, chemicals, electronics, and semiconductors across Asia. Over the years, he has interviewed thousands of sources, including hundreds of CEOs, CFO, CTOs, financial analysts, and other industry figures. A native of Montreal, Canada, JF has lived in Taiwan, Japan and China for four decades and considers Hong Kong his home.

Chris Ip is an award-winning culture editor and feature writer. As a senior editor at The Atlantic in New York, he assigned and edited arts criticism, features, and essays. Before that, he wrote and edited longform stories about technology and culture as the features editor at Engadget. Earlier in his career, he was a reporter for the Columbia Journalism Review, as well as Reuters and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong.

Professor of AI in Media Production University of Television and Film Munich, Germany Dr. Sylvia Rothe began her academic career at Humboldt University in Berlin, where she studied mathematics and later worked as a research assistant. […]