John Richardson
Director
ICIS training Asia

John Richardson has been a journalist for 20 years. He started his career with a weekly newspaper in London before freelancing for the UK national press and for a local evening newspaper. He has also worked for local and national UK TV and radio stations, including the BBC.

John moved to Singapore in 1997 to become deputy of Asian Chemical News and was promoted to editor in June 2005. ACN was merged with European Chemical News to form a new magazine, ICIS Chemical Business in January this year.

John was also responsible from 2001-2005 for the Asian output of ICIS news - the online news service.

His current position with ICIS is as director of a newly-launched business, ICIS training Asia.