About Me/ Biography

Move to China
In the fall of 2003, Richard Trombly realized that recent developments in China, including the easing of political and economic controls, a 9-10 percent annual growth rate and the manned space launch, made that country the most interesting place in the world to report from. It took a bit of juggling, but by December he was in the Shanghai area. His wife and children joined him in the spring of 2004.

He is now an adjunct professor of Business Writing at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, and continues to write about how China is changing the way the world does business for publications in the U.S., Shanghai, and elsewhere in the world. | Photo Album

Richard Trombly was born on April 18, 1967. He was raised on a family farm in western Massachusetts and still lives in the old family farmhouse, which he and his wife bought from his parents in 1997.

In 1989, he graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a BA in English Literature, and, after some study in Germany, went on to teach English at Kolbourne School, a private school in the Berkshires, where he worked for six years.

Richard also wrote freelance feature articles for local and national publications and reported for the Associated Press. In early 2000, he was hired by the Berkshire Beacon to be its managing editor. At the end of that year, he was hired to be the Associate Editor of Industrial Distribution, a Newton-Massachusetts-based trade magazine published by Cahners Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.

Richard received his private pilot's license in 1990 and soon followed it up with a instrument certification, a commercial license, and multi-engine certification. He is an avid pilot and flies out of an airport in Northampton, Mass. Richard is also a wooden boat enthusiast and recently built a 14-foot wooden sailboat.

He is married, with two children: a seven-year-old daughter, and a five-year-old son. His wife, Maria Trombly, is the Asia bureau chief and global technology columnist for Securities Industry News, and former war correspondent.
 
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