Almar Latour is the editor-in-chief, Asia, for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires.

Based in Hong Kong, he oversees The Wall Street Journal Asia, asia.WSJ.com, the Journal’s Chinese-language and Japanese-language editions online, as well as Dow Jones Newswires’ editorial operations across Asia.

Mr. Latour was previously managing editor of WSJ.com.

He led WSJ.com’s expanded coverage of business and finance as well as personal finance, sports, travel and multimedia storytelling, and oversaw a major redesign of the site in September 2008.

Under Mr. Latour’s leadership, WSJ.com reported growth of approximately 170% (site visits).

He also served as bureau chief at the Journal’s technology group in New York and as deputy bureau chief.

In March 2005, he was part of a team of two that won the World Leadership Forum’s business journalism award for “Best Story of Business Leadership.”

Mr. Latour has worked as a news assistant at the Journal’s Washington, D.C. bureau and as a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal in New York and for The Wall Street Journal Europe in London, Stockholm and Brussels.

He has covered Central and Eastern Europe, the Internet bubble, and numerous other topics, and written for one of The Wall Street Journal Europe’s magazines.

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