Our Common Humanity in the Information Age. Principles and Values for Development

Peter Engardio, Senior News Editor, Business Week
Peter Engardio is Senior News Editor for BUSINESS WEEK, focusing on global 
business and economic trends. He joined BUSINESS WEEK in 1985 as a correspondent 

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covering Atlanta, Miami, and Hong Kong. In 1996 he moved to New York as an Asian 
editor. From 1998 to 2001, he was editor of the Asian Edition.
In 2005, Engardio anchored BusinessWeek’s special issue “China & India: What You 
Need to Know,” winner of the Institute for Political Journalism Award. His 2004 cover 
“The China Price” won an Overseas Press Club Award. In 2003, he anchored two 
groundbreaking covers on offshore outsourcing of skilled work, “Is Your Job Next” and 
the “Rise of India,” for which he received George Polk, Loeb, and Sigma Delta Chi 
awards, and was named a finalist for a National Magazine Awards. The pieces sparked 
Congressional hearings and a national debate on outsourcing. He also won a Harry 
Chapin award sponsored by World Hunger Year for his 2002 cover “Fighting Poverty” 
and a Clarion Award and OPC citation in 2001 for his cover “Global Capitalism: Can it 
be Made to Work Better?” In 1996, he received an OPC Award for his International 
cover story, "China's New Elite." In 1997 he received an OPC citation for "Asia: Time 
for a Reality Check," written as he was finishing his Hong Kong tour, and he was part of 
the BUSINESS WEEK Asia Team that won a 1998 Overseas Press Club Award for 
coverage of Asia in Crisis.
Prior to joining BUSINESS WEEK, Engardio was a feature editor for Business Korea in 
Seoul, as well as a stringer for BUSINESS WEEK. Before that, he worked for the Bay 
City News Service in San Francisco and the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
He was editor for a just-released book on China and India which was published by 
McGraw-Hill and is co-author with Mark L. Clifford of "Meltdown: Asia's Boom, Bust, 
and Beyond," published in 2000 by Prentice-Hall. 
In 2004, Engardio was a Reuters Journalism Fellow at Oxford University. He holds a BA 
from Central Michigan University and an MA from the University of Missouri, School of 
Journalism.