Gina Chon is a columnist for Reuters Breakingviews based in San Francisco, where she writes about the tech industry and related policy issues. She was previously based in Washington, D.C. and wrote opinion pieces about the economy, trade and regulation. She joined Breakingviews in 2016 from the Financial Times, where she was the enforcement and regulatory correspondent covering white-collar crime and cyber security. Before that, Gina was the corporate reporter for Quartz and spent seven years at the Wall Street Journal in New York, Baghdad and Detroit, writing about M&A, the Iraq war and the auto industry. She also has written a book about the Khmer Rouge, trained journalists in Iraq and written from her native Seoul. She received the 2017 Reuters Journalist of the Year award for commentary for her columns about the Trump administration.