Cris Heaton has been contributing to MoneyWeek (http://www.moneyweek.com/) magazine since 2006 and writes the weekly MoneyWeek Asia (http://www.moneyweek.com/shop/free-emails/moneyweek-asia-signup.aspx) email. Prior to joining the MoneyWeek team, he contributed to a number of financial publications including Petroleum Economist, Platts and Shares. He has also worked in pensions and insurance consultancy at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Lane Clark & Peacock, as well as spells selling Brazilian music in Canada and teaching financial English to business students in France. Cris holds a degree in mathematics from the University of Durham, a graduate certificate in journalism from the London College of Printing and is currently studying for a graduate diploma in finance at Birkbeck, University of London.