Giles Hewitt has been AFP's Asia-Pacific editor-in-chief since January 1, 2017

Giles, 54, was recruited by AFP Hong Kong in July 1990. A British national, he was born in India and graduated from the University of East Anglia in Norwich. From 1993 to 1997 Giles worked in AFP’s Beijing bureau.  This was followed by a posting to New Delhi as deputy bureau chief. From June 2002 he was in New York, returning to AFP’s Paris headquarters in the summer of 2006. He served as deputy head of the English desk until September 2008 when he returned to New Delhi as bureau chief. Four years later he became AFP’s Seoul bureau chief.  His responsibilities included covering news out of North Korea, where AFP recently became one of the few foreign media outlets to open a bureau.