Colin Chapman

Colin Chapman has been the president of the AIIA New South Wales since July 2010.

Colin is a former foreign editor of the London Sunday Times and BBC TV economics correspondent. He returned to Australia in 2003 after more than a decade in the senior management of the Financial Times group. Previously, in Australia, he worked for the ABC as executive producer of PM and as finance correspondent, for The Australian as deputy editor and for the Washington Post.

He has taken an active role in creating courses and training young journalists in political reporting in Africa, South Asia and the Middle East. Colin has written several books and is now a writer, broadcaster, television producer and vice president of Asia Pacific for STRATFOR, a private intelligence company.