Douglas Appell

Senior Reporter (Money management/Asia)

[email protected]nline.com

+65-6408-0158

Doug joined P&I as a reporter in the Boston office in 2003, covering money managers and mutual funds. In 2012, he opened P&I's first office in Asia.

He is well acquainted with the region. He reported from Japan, Malaysia and Singapore for 14 years, primarily with Dow Jones & Co.'s wire service as well as the company's Asian Wall Street Journal.

Doug has a bachelor's degree in economics from Cornell University and a master's in international relations from John Hopkins University. Doug also spent a year at Tokyo University, where he studied Japanese politics on a Fulbright scholarship. He is fluent in Japanese.

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