Russell Flannery is a senior contributor to Forbes.com and an advisor at Forbes China, the Chinese-language edition of Forbes. He was Forbes China's editor-in-chief in 2016-2021. Flannery opened Forbes first-ever bureau in mainland China -- in Shanghai – in 2003. He compiled the Forbes China Rich List from 2003 through 2022 and, for shorter periods, the Taiwan Rich List and Hong Kong Rich List. Flannery was previously a correspondent for Bloomberg News in Taipei and Shanghai and for the Asian Wall Street Journal in Taipei. He’s a Massachusetts native, fluent Mandarin speaker, and holds degrees from the University of Vermont and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.