Clement is an experienced educator and journalist focused on Asia. As a journalist, he is drawn broadly to the nexus of money and power. He was in Beijing covering the political economy of China’s aviation, aerospace and other industrial sectors for Bloomberg News, and wrote about the country’s financial markets for Reuters from Hong Kong.
His interest in money and politics was piqued in his time as a reporting fellow with Los Angeles Times in Washington, where he was introduced to campaign finance coverage.
Clement currently covers major macroeconomic, financial markets and geopolitical developments in Asia Pacific for CNBC.com from Singapore. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and conversant in Cantonese and Min-nan or Taiwanese.
He recently returned to journalism after a pitstop in education, teaching senior high school English in Singapore. He coached pre-university students in critical thinking, reading and writing through a broad range of current affairs and inter-disciplinary issues.
Clement is an alum of the Columbia Journalism School in New York and the National University of Singapore, where he was part of the liberal arts University Scholars Program and co-founded the Southeast Asian city-state’s first editorially-independent campus online newspaper. The Umbrella Movement of 2014 on the streets of Hong Kong was a major career highlight.