EDWARD W. DESMOND
Tokyo Bureau Chief
TIME Magazine
 

Edward "Ned" Desmond grew up in Newton, Mass., and received his B.A. in English from Amherst College in 1980. He went on for two more years of study at the Fletcher School of International Relations, where he finished with a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (M.A.L.D.), in 1982.

Desmond worked as a freelance writer for a little more than a year after finishing at Fletcher. Among the places his work appeared were the National Review, the Boston Globe, Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, the Cape Cod Times and the Middlesex News . He also worked for Henry Grunwald on a freelance basis, helping out with research on speeches and articles concerning foreign policy.

In April 1984 Ned joined TIME as a researcher in the World section, and moved on to become a writer for TIME International in the summer of 1985. After brief stints in the Washington and New York bureaus during the spring and summer of 1988, he moved to New Delhi, becoming bureau chief in December 1988, until January 1992, when he took a six month sabbatical at Oxford University as a Visiting Journalist Fellow. In June, he moved to Tokyo to assume the job of Tokyo bureau chief.

Ned is married to Joan Frawley Desmond; they have two sons John Conor Desmond and Joseph Edward Desmond, and a daughter, Justine Frawley Desmond.

January 1994