Joe Leahy is Brazil bureau chief for the Financial Times, based in São Paulo. Previously, he served as the FT’s Mumbai bureau chief, as well as Asia companies editor and Hong Kong correspondent. Before joining the Financial Times in 2000, Leahy was the Jakarta bureau chief for AFX and also worked for the South China Morning Post as a subeditor and then as Indonesia correspondent. In 2009, he won the Journalist of the Year award, the most prestigious prize of the Society of Publishers in Asia, for excellence in his reporting of Indian business and politics. He also won the 2009 Indian Express award for Best Foreign Correspondent covering South Asia. While in Hong Kong in 2006, he jointly won the Sopa award for Excellence in Business Reporting for his coverage of Chinese Oil Company CNOOC's bid for Unocal of the U.S. In 2011, he jointly won an honorable mention in Sopa’s multimedia category for a Facebook, video, and print project on Mumbai’s migrants, Living the Dream. Leahy is a graduate of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism. Leahy is fluent in Indonesian.