Geoff Dyer is an award-winning Financial Times journalist covering foreign policy and author of The Contest of the Century: The New Era of Competition with China—and How America Can Win. Dyer has spent over ten years working for the Financial Times, and was former Beijing bureau chief from 2008 until 2011, also spending time in Brazil before moving to the Washington DC bureau to write about American foreign policy. Dyer has appeared regularly on television discussing international affairs, speaking on CNN, MSNBC and Al-Jazeera. He was the recipient of a Fulbright award and has received various accolades for his journalism.

A highly intelligent scholar, Dyer studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University and the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna and Washington DC. He joined the Financial Times in 2005, working from Shanghai, and was promoted to FT bureau chief in Beijing in 2008. His next assignment took him to South America, where he worked as the FT bureau chief in Brazil, writing about the healthcare industry and the Aids epidemic in Asia And Africa. Now working at the Washington DC bureau, he has written his well-received book Contest of the Century: the New Era of Competition with China, a fascinating account of the changing dynamics between China and the United States.

Dyer’s recent media appearances included an interview for the Zócalo green room, where he discussed the implications of being one of two contemporary British writers named Geoff Dyer.