Emily Parker is a writer and public speaker about technology, business and regulatory trends in the US and Asia. She is currently the China and Japan Advisor at the Global Blockchain Business Council. She was executive director of global strategy at CoinDesk, where she led the company's global expansion. She was also an anchor on CoinDesk's flagship TV show, “First Mover" and has appeared regularly on CNBC. She is the co-founder of LongHash, a blockchain startup that focuses on Asian markets. Previously, Emily was a member of the Policy Planning staff at the U.S. State Department, where she worked on Internet freedom and digital diplomacy. Emily was a staff writer/editor at The Wall Street Journal and an editor at The New York Times.

She is the author of "Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices From the Internet Underground" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The book tells the stories of Internet activists in China, Cuba and Russia. Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, called it "a rigorously researched and reported account that reads like a thriller." Emily's book has been assigned at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Tufts, UCSD and other schools.

Emily has been awarded fellowships at the Council on Foreign Relations, New America, Asia Society and the Carnegie Moscow Center. She was the China advisor at the Markle Foundation, where she focused on how Chinese demand could create jobs in the United States. She was chief strategy officer at Silicon Valley social media startup Parlio, which was acquired by Quora.

She has done public speaking all over the world, and has been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, BBC and many other television and radio shows. She has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, CNN, Politico, Reuters, MIT Technology Review, Foreign Affairs, WIRED and other publications.

Emily has lived in Mainland China, Japan and Hong Kong. She speaks Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, French and Spanish. She graduated with Honors from Brown University and has a Masters from Harvard in East Asian Studies.