Willy Wo-Lap Lam

Willy Wo-Lap Lam (born 1952;[1] Chinese: 林和立; Cantonese Yale: Làhm Wòh-lahp) is a Hong Kong columnist, economist, newspaper editor, political commentator, political scientist, public policy analyst, sinologist, and writer.

He is a frequent commentator on many major media networks regarding the current state of Chinese politics.

He is currently a Jamestown Foundation fellow and an adjunct professor at the Centre for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

He was the paper's Beijing correspondent until the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, and was China editor during the 1997 handover of Hong Kong.

[5] In 1995, he was described as the "quintessential China watcher";[6] CNN called him "one of the most plugged-in observers of Chinese politics in the world" in 1999.