Contact information:
thomas (a t) crampton dot com or Hong Kong mobile phone +852 6397 1662

Simplified Chinese version of biography below.

As Asia-Pacific director of 360 Digital Influence for Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, Thomas Crampton heads a team stretching across 23 cities in 15 Asian territories that helps companies conceive, develop and execute strategies in Social Media.

Prior to joining Ogilvy, Mr. Crampton spent 18 years as a globetrotting newspaper correspondent, mainly for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times, reporting from five continents and dozens of counties.

Passionately involved in digital for the last six years, he writes a widely read blog, thomascrampton.com, and is a frequent keynote speaker and moderator at high profile conferences around the world, from the World Economic Forum in Davos to Le Web in Paris.

While at the International Herald Tribune, Mr. Crampton launched the newspaper’s first blog, wrote a weekly column about Asia, was a Paris-based feature writer on media and technology, covered the 2004 US presidential election for The New York Times, reported on the 1997 Asian financial crisis from Thailand, the SARS outbreak from Hong Kong, the civil war in Sudan, rebel fighting in Sri Lanka, Taiwan’s largest earthquake, US hurricanes, the Cannes Film Festival and many more topics.

Currently on the board of the The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Hong Kong, Mr. Crampton has served as president of that club as well as president of The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand and on the board of the New York-based Overseas Press Club.

In addition to publisher’s awards from The New York Times and citations from Amnesty International for his articles and photography, Mr. Crampton has served as a judge for numerous journalism awards and worked to promote freedom of expression and the training of journalists.

He is co-founder of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club Charity Fund that has raised more than US$3 million to support the higher education of disadvantaged children from the Po Leung Kuk. Check out our amazing scholarship winners here!

Mr. Crampton was educated in the United States at the University of Virginia, in Ireland at Trinity College, Dublin and in France at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. He speaks English, French, Thai and is learning Mandarin Chinese.

DISCLOSURES: I will disclose when I am writing about a company that is an Ogilvy client or where I have some real or perceived interest. I spent my career adhering strictly to The New York Times Guide to Ethical Journalism, so old habits are hard to break.

FREEBIES: The Economist started giving me a free subscription a few months ago. They also send me early updates of The Economists’ content and offer to arrange interviews with their journalists for my blog; The New Yorker sends me PDF copies of all their China-related stories; a number of publishers, including Harvard University Press and Penguin, send me review copies of their upcoming books.

OPINIONS: All views expressed on this blog are entirely personal, belong to me, do not reflect on anyone else and are mine not those of Ogilvy or its clients. Is that clear enough? (One exception: On some occasions I have guest postings, those opinions belong to those who wrote them.)

Simplified Chinese Bio:
Thomas Crampton
亚太区总监
360度数字影响力团队，奥美公共关系国际集团

作为奥美公共关系国际集团360数字影响力的亚太区总监，Thomas Crampton率领一支横跨15个亚洲国家23个城市的团队，帮助奥美构思、开发并执行社会媒体战略。

加入奥美前，Thomas曾任环球记者18年，主要是从五大洲的数十个国家为《国际先驱论坛报》和《纽约时报》报道新闻。

他在过去的6年里投身于数字化，他的博客（thomascrampton.com）访问量非常高；除此之外他还经常作为主讲人和主持人活跃在高层会议上，从达沃斯的世界经济论坛到巴黎的欧洲互联网峰会Le Web到首尔的韩国通信大会，都能看到他的身影。

在《国际先驱论坛报》期间，Thomas是该报的在巴黎的特约媒体和科技作者，他创建了该报的第一个博客，此外，他还每周撰写亚洲专栏，并为《纽约时报》报导了2004年美国大选，泰国的1997年亚洲金融危机，香港非典大爆发，苏丹内战，斯里兰卡叛乱，台湾大地震，美国东部飓风，戛纳电影节以及其他很多专题。

Thomas历任香港外国记者协会主席，泰国外国记者协会主席以及总部设在纽约的海外新闻协会委员。他目前仍然是香港外国记者协会委员会成员。

除了曾获《纽约时报》出版人奖，文章和照片被国际特赦组织引用外，Thomas还担任许多新闻界大奖的评委，为倡导言论自由和培养新人作出了贡献。

他也是香港外国记者协会慈善基金会的创始人之一，该基金会已募集超过300万美元，用来支持香港保良局弱势群体的高等教育。

Thomas曾在美国弗吉尼亚大学，爱尔兰的都柏林三一学院和法国的巴黎高等政治学院接受教育。他可以说英语，法语，泰语，现在正在学中文

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