Marianne is a Hong Kong-based journalist and an honorary lecturer at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong. After working as a social scientist in New Zealand she studied for a masters in journalism at Columbia University in New York. She has worked for major outlets like CNN.com, AFP, Reuters and Bloomberg and freelances for The Economist, Restofworld.org and Context.com, among others. She teaches a climate reporting course at HKU and is a judge for the annual Society of Publishers in Asia journalism awards.