Rebecca A. Fannin is an editor, author and expert on global innovation and investment trends. She is the founder of news, events and research group Silicon Dragon. A writer with Forbes since 2010, Rebecca contributes a weekly column and profiles leaders for several Forbes Asia special reports. Rebecca is the author of two books, Silicon Dragon (McGraw-Hill, 2008) and Startup Asia (John Wiley, 2011), which have been translated into Chinese, Vietnamese and Arabic, and received favorable reviews from the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, China Daily and New York Times. She is a co-author of Innovation in Emerging Markets (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). A former international editor at Red Herring, AVCJ and International Business magazine in New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong, Rebecca's work also has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Inc., BBC, CNBC and Fast Company as well as several thought leadership reports. She is a public speaker and a media commentator.