On Wednesday, March 5, 2025, at 6pm, Buckley Fellows are invited to a dinner seminar featuring President of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, Mark L. Clifford, and author of a new biography of political prisoner Jimmy Lai,
The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident and China's Most Feared Critic.
This event is open to Buckley Fellows only.
Mark L. Clifford is president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, an NGO dedicated to democracy, human rights, and the rule of law for the people of Hong Kong. Previously, he was executive director of the Hong Kong–based Asia Business Council, and a board director at Next Digital, the Hong Kong media giant founded and majority-owned by Jimmy Lai. During his twenty-eight years in Hong Kong, he served as editor-in-chief of both English-language newspapers, the
South China Morning Post and
The Standard, of which he was also publisher. He held senior editorial positions at
BusinessWeek and the
Far Eastern Economic Review, in Hong Kong and Seoul, and lived in Asia from 1987 until 2020. A history graduate of the University of California Berkeley and a Walter Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University, he holds a PhD in Hong Kong history from the University of Hong Kong. Clifford has won numerous journalism, academic, and book awards, and is the author of
Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China’s Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere.
