This author’s biography, The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong’s Greatest Dissident, and China’s Most Feared Critic, was published by Simon & Schuster in December 2024. Clifford is the president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, and he served as the executive director of the Hong Kong-based Asia Business Council and as a board director at Next Digital, the Hong Kong media giant founded and majority-owned by Jimmy Lai. During Clifford’s nearly three decades in Hong Kong, he was the editor-in-chief of two English-language newspapers and won numerous journalism, academic, and book awards. His previous book was Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China’s Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere. Mark Clifford was interviewed by fellow biographer and BIO member Sonja Williams.