Prior to joining the Asia Society, Ouyang Bin worked as a journalist in China. He served at Phoenix Weekly, Newsweek Select (Newsweek’s Chinese edition), Caijing magazine, and Caixin media. He has received awards for his reporting from Phoenix Weekly, the Asian Development Bank, and the Reuters Foundation. His interests concentrate on China’s political and societal transformation and the geopolitics of Northeast Asia. He was a Harvard-Yenching Fellow from 2010-2012.

Ouyang earned his B.A. in Journalism from China Youth University for Political Sciences, and his M.A. in Regional Studies-East Asia from Harvard University.