Russell Flannery

Russell Flannery was a country editor for the Forbes Billionaires List in 2003-2024 and editor at large at Forbes in 2021-2024. He is currently an advisor at Forbes China, the Chinese-language edition of Forbes, and was its editor-in-chief in 2016-2021.  Flannery opened Forbes first-ever bureau in mainland China -- in Shanghai – in 2003. He compiled the Forbes China Rich List from 2003 through 2022 and, for shorter periods, the Taiwan Rich List and Hong Kong Rich List. Flannery was previously a correspondent for Bloomberg News in Taipei and Shanghai and for the Asian Wall Street Journal in Taipei. He’s a Massachusetts native, fluent Mandarin speaker, and holds degrees from the University of Vermont and the University of Wisconsin at Madison.  Forbes contributors follow company ethical guidelines that ensure the highest quality journalism.