"Philip McClellan is responsible for the IHT's editorial operations in Asia, heading an award-winning team of reporters and editors."

Chief editor for Asia and deputy managing editor

Philip McClellan has worked for the IHT since 2001 in Paris and Hong Kong. Currently working out of the Hong Kong newsroom, he is responsible for the IHT's editorial operations in Asia, heading an award-winning team of reporters and editors. Mr. McClellan, who grew up in Asia and Europe, started his career in journalism in Hong Kong in the 1990s, reporting for a local news magazine before working as a correspondent for Agence France-Presse in Hong Kong and Bangkok. In 1997, Mr. McClellan moved to the San Francisco Bay Area at the height of the tech boom and spent two years working as a freelancer, covering technology and Asia-related topics, before joining the San Jose Mercury News as the weekend editor on the foreign desk. Mr. McClellan has a BA in history from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and a Masters in International Public Affairs from the University of Hong Kong.