Bill Ridgers is The Economist’s Asia Digital editor, responsible for the Asia newsdesk in Hong Kong. He was previously co-editor of the Espresso daily news-briefing app. Before that he was the business education editor at The Economist, editor of the Gulliver business-travel blog and deputy editor of “The World in 2018”. Prior to joining the newspaper, he was the editor of the long-running “Which MBA?” guide and was the chief travel and tourism analyst for the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). At the EIU he also edited the cost of living survey and devised its liveability rankings. He has written papers on talent management, education and the cost of doing business, and has published a book of business quotations.