Daya Thussu is Professor of International Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong. In 2018-2019, he was a visiting Distinguished Professor and Inaugural Disney Chair in Global Media at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, Beijing. Prior to that, he was Professor of International Communication at the University of Westminster in London, where he was also founder and co-director of India Media Centre as well as Research Advisor to the China Media Centre. He is the author or editor of 20 books and is also series editor for two book series on international media studies. Since 2005, Professor Thussu has been the Managing Editor of the journal Global Media and Communication.