Kenneth Neil Cukier is the data editor of The Economist in Tokyo. From 2007 to 2012, he was the Japan business and finance correspondent, and before that, the paper's global technology correspondent based in London, where his work focused on innovation, intellectual property and Internet governance. He was the technology editor of The Asian Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong and a regular commentator on CNBC Asia. He was the European editor of Red Herring and worked at The International Herald Tribune in Paris. From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Cukier was a research fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, working on the Internet and international relations. His writings have also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Prospect, The Financial Times and Foreign Affairs. He is a frequent commentator on business and technology matters for CBS, CNN, NPR, and the BBC. He serves on the Board of Directors of International Bridges to Justice, a Geneva-based NGO promoting legal rights in developing countries. He also serves on the Board of Advisors of the Daniel Pearl Foundation. Mr. Cukier served as a faculty member at Salzburg Global Seminar 439, "The New Information Networks: Challenges and Opportunities for Business, Governments and Media" in 2007.