About Michael Backman
"A brilliant writer on regional business strategies."
Rowan Callick, Australian Financial Review
Rowan Callick, Australian Financial Review
Michael Backman is an Australian-born British writer. He specialises in writing and speaking about Asia: its economies, politics, business groups and
business practices. He has a well-earned reputation for thorough, independent and highly-detailed analysis. He has lived in London, Paris, Jakarta,
Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra.
His books have appeared on best seller lists across Asia and his writings have been the subject of debate in the Australian and Malaysian Parliaments,
the subject of a Wall Street Journal editorial, and been cited in the National Day Address of Singapore’s Prime Minister, and in speeches by other
politicians around Asia.
He is the author of the international best seller Asian Eclipse: Exposing the Dark Side of Business in Asia, which was named by The Economist magazine
as one of the ‘finest’ general non-fiction books published for the year and listed by Thailand's then prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra as a books that "all
Thais should read." It is now on higher education reading lists including at the London School of Economics and Wharton Business School.
Backman is also the co-author of Big in Asia, and author of The Asian Insider, Inside Knowledge and Asia Future Shock (also available in Chinese,
Indonesian and Spanish) all published by Palgrave-Macmillan, an imprint of Macmillan.
He is also the principal author of the landmark Overseas Chinese Business Networks in Asia, published in 1995 by the Australian Government.
At various times he has been a regular columnist for The Melbourne Age newspaper and Asia Inc magazine and contributing editor (Asia) for World
Business magazine. He has authored numerous articles on the complexities of Asia for The Times of London, the International Herald Tribune, the Asian
Wall Street Journal, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the Australian Financial Review and the Business Times of Singapore, among others.
Mr Backman holds a First Class Economics Degree.
business practices. He has a well-earned reputation for thorough, independent and highly-detailed analysis. He has lived in London, Paris, Jakarta,
Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra.
His books have appeared on best seller lists across Asia and his writings have been the subject of debate in the Australian and Malaysian Parliaments,
the subject of a Wall Street Journal editorial, and been cited in the National Day Address of Singapore’s Prime Minister, and in speeches by other
politicians around Asia.
He is the author of the international best seller Asian Eclipse: Exposing the Dark Side of Business in Asia, which was named by The Economist magazine
as one of the ‘finest’ general non-fiction books published for the year and listed by Thailand's then prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra as a books that "all
Thais should read." It is now on higher education reading lists including at the London School of Economics and Wharton Business School.
Backman is also the co-author of Big in Asia, and author of The Asian Insider, Inside Knowledge and Asia Future Shock (also available in Chinese,
Indonesian and Spanish) all published by Palgrave-Macmillan, an imprint of Macmillan.
He is also the principal author of the landmark Overseas Chinese Business Networks in Asia, published in 1995 by the Australian Government.
At various times he has been a regular columnist for The Melbourne Age newspaper and Asia Inc magazine and contributing editor (Asia) for World
Business magazine. He has authored numerous articles on the complexities of Asia for The Times of London, the International Herald Tribune, the Asian
Wall Street Journal, the Far Eastern Economic Review, the Australian Financial Review and the Business Times of Singapore, among others.
Mr Backman holds a First Class Economics Degree.