Nolan Crawford grew up mostly in Bangkok, Thailand where he attended the International School Bangkok and developed an affinity for media and monetary policy – during those teen years he listed Alan Greenspan and Peter Jennings as idols. His enthusiasm drew him to Boston University where he studied mass communications and received a minor in Economics.

 

After a short stint with a company that sold armored vehicles to the US military in Afghanistan, Nolan became a financial reporter with ThaiDay newspaper, the local insert for the International Herald Tribune, and then joined Viet Nam News as a sub-editor when the Bangkok paper closed after the 2006 military coup – nothing like the smell of revolution in the morning.

 

Now living in DC, Nolan continues to freelance as a reporter, while finding ample time to reconnect with old friends and loved ones.