Andrew Stevens is an award-winning editor and correspondent based at CNN's Asia Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong. Stevens joined CNN International in 1999 as a specialist business correspondent and has extensively covered news and business stories across the region. Stevens, who is originally from Australia, is a former print journalist who relocated from London to Hong Kong in 1993, in the lead up to the territory's handover to China in 1997. Prior to joining CNN, Stevens was a senior correspondent for CNBC Asia and financial editor of The South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He spent six years in London as the economics editor for the Press Association and began his career in his native Australia, where he was a correspondent for the Australian Financial Review.