Debbie Yong is a Senior Strategist focusing on the Asia-Pacific region at WGSN, a consumer-trend forecasting company. She previously worked as the Editorial Director of the Michelin Guide in Asia and the Middle East, a China media analyst for BBC Monitoring, and a reporter for the Straits Times and the Business Times in Singapore. In 2019, Netflix featured her as a Singaporean food expert on “Street Food: Asia. She holds a dual master’s degree in global media and communications from the London School of Economics and Fudan University in China, as well as a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Debbie Yong on Indo-Pacific Consumer Trends and Food Culture
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Recent Posts
Ashok Malik talks US-India relations in GZERO Media
November 11, 2025
Media Mentions
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Media Mentions
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Jennifer Schuch-Page in Nikkei Asia: ‘There’s a difference between being a leader in multilateral climate action and being the clean energy factory for the world’
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Media Mentions
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Mira Rapp-Hooper and Kurt Campbell dissect Trump’s use of term ‘G2’ in AP News
November 3, 2025
Media Mentions
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