From 1989 to 1990, Driskill worked as an international communications consultant for a World Bank NGO in Sri Lanka.
Matthew Driskill
is an award-winning journalist, multimedia entrepreneur and university lecturer who has lived and worked throughout Asia since 1989. He is a senior editor at Thomson Reuters in Singapore.
At 24, Driskill was the youngest press secretary on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. He worked for the House Subcommittee on Information and Justice.
Driskill is a visiting lecturer at Hong Kong University, Baptist University (HK), American University of Paris and Oklahoma City University. He teaches multicultural classes on international communications and executive media training.
From 2002 to 2008, Driskill was a business editor in Paris and promoted to Editor of Business Asia, a daily section of business and finance news on Asia in the International Herald Tribune. He remains based in Asia.
Prior to joining the IHT in Paris, Driskill served as the Managing Editor of IQ Magazine, a quarterly review of international business and finance research published by the INSEAD international management school in France and Singapore. He also worked as the client services manager for INSEAD Online, building online education modules for international executives.
Driskill’s work has appeared in or on behalf of Asiaweek, Associated Press, CNBC, Bridge News, National Law Journal, American Banker, KFOR TV, KTOK Radio, European Business Forum, UPI, Dallas Times Herald and in scientific papers and journals published by the CGIAR and United Nations.
In 1996, Matthew Driskill produced The Final Report, the official report of the city government of Oklahoma City on the bombing of the Alfred Murrah Federal Building. Driskill led a team of private investors, city officials (elected officeholders and professional staff) and creative programming teams in California and Oklahoma City. The Final Report was produced on CD-ROM, one of the first such electronic teaching tools, for an audience of global law enforcement and rescue agencies.
In 2004, Matthew Driskill was elected and served as President of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Hong Kong. He previously served as 1st Vice President and continues to serve on the Board from time to time. He has also served as a judge for the FCC/Amnesty International Human Rights Awards and the Society of Publishers in Asia Editorial Awards since 2004.
