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 and 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.