Brian Rhoads is the editor of SCMP Plus, the South China Morning Post’s premium service providing intelligence and insight on China for business leaders, diplomats, and China watchers.
He has been a journalist and newsroom executive in North America and Asia for more than three decades, beginning his career at local newspapers in California. He joined Reuters in Hong Kong in 1996 and went on to serve as China Bureau Chief in Beijing during most of the 2000s, Americas Managing Editor in New York from 2008 to 2010, and later Asia Managing Editor in Hong Kong.
He moved to the Post as Managing Editor in 2012. After nearly a decade in that role, he became a senior Asia-Pacific communications specialist for HSBC in Hong Kong. He later returned to the Post as a leader writer and member of the Editorial Board before taking the helm at SCMP Plus.
He has served as a lecturer in global journalism at the University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University. He holds a BA in political science from Stanford University and completed the FT Non-Executive Director Programme in 2024.