OAJC LUNCHEON LECTURE

China’s Influence on Global Economics and Business

with Richard Read

Richard Read is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for The Oregonian. He has worked in Thailand and Japan, and he opened The Oregonian’s Asia Bureau in Tokyo in 1989. Read won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 1999 for a series that dramatized the global effects of the Asian financial crisis through the movement of a container of French fries from a Washington-state farm to a McDonald's restaurant in Singapore. The series also received the Overseas Press Club award for best business reporting from abroad, and the Scripps Howard Foundation award for business reporting, and the Blethen award for enterprise reporting.

In 2000 he received the Oregon Governor’s award for achievement in international business, and in 1999 and 2002 he was named the state’s international citizen of the year. In 2003, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Willamette University. He was also one of four reporters on a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2001 for stories on the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. The team also received the Bruce Baer award for investigative reporting, the Unity Media Award and the American Immigration Lawyers Association media leadership award. Richard Read’s most recent investigative piece for The Oregonian was a March 6 front page article on Chinese factory workers [click here]. In the past few years, he has written extensively about the global implications of Chinese economics and business.