2022 - Emily Feng
Beijing Correspondent, NPR
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2019 - Maria Ressa
CEO and Executive Editor, Rappler
2018 - Anna Fifield
Beijing Bureau Chief, the Washington Post
2017 - Siddharth Varadarajan
Founder and Editor, the Wire
2016 - Ian Johnson
Author and frequent contributor to the New York Times, New York Review of Books, the New Yorker and National Geographic
2015 - Yoichi Funabashi
Former Editor-in-Chief, the Asahi Shimbun
2014 - Jacob Schlesinger
Senior Asia Economics Correspondent and Central Banks Editors - Asia, the Wall Street Journal
2013 - Aung Zaw
Founder and Editor, the Irrawaddy
2012 - Barbara Demick
Beijing Bureau Chief, the Los Angeles Times
2011 - Caixin Media
Independent, Beijing-based media company
2010 - Barbara Crossette
Former Foreign Correspondent, the New York Times
2009 - Seth Mydans
Southeast Asia Correspondent, the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune
2008 - Ian Buruma
Writer and the Henry R. Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism, Bard College
2007 - John Pomfret
Former Beijing Bureau Chief, the Washington Post
2006 - Melinda Liu
Beijing Bureau Chief, Newsweek
2005 - Nayan Chanda
Former Editor and Correspondent, the Far Eastern Economic Review
2004 - Donald Oberdorfer
Former Diplomatic Correspondent, the Washington Post
2003 - Orville Schell
Journalist and former Dean, School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley
2002 - Stanley Karnow
Former foreign correspondent and Pulitzer-prize winning historian