TED KEMP

Ted Kemp holds more than 25 years of experience as a newsroom leader, editor, correspondent, analyst and author.

As Chief Editorial Officer at Businext, Kemp created the editorial vision for a newsroom that serves ambitious Millennial and GenZ investors, entrepreneurs and rising executives across Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East and other high-potential markets.

Prior to joining Businext, Kemp served as Managing Editor of Digital for CNBC International, where he led editorial decision-making and directed multiple newsrooms across Asia-Pacific, Europe and Middle East. While at the business network, he managed digital coverage of China through correspondents based there and intensified coverage of India.

Kemp regularly appeared as a geopolitics analyst on CNBC Squawk Box programs live from Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States. He trained and advised CNBC- affiliated newsrooms in India, Indonesia and South Korea.

Previously, as top editor at CNBC Europe based in London, he instituted and refined protocols for managing news flow between countries and time zones. A part of the original CNBC digital launch team in the United States, Kemp designed breaking news protocols and sat at the center of news flows for the startup.

Kemp produced Beyond the Valley, a podcast examining technology and innovation from Asia and Europe.

Kemp originated and reported CNBC's, a geopolitical study of the South China Sea and the most intensive use of game theory to date by any major news organization on any topic.

He was creator and reporter for Oceans of Crime, a documentary investigation into illegal commercial fishing that took him to Burma, Singapore, and at sea with the Royal Thai Navy. It aired in North America, Asia, Europe and Latin America.

Kemp is the co-author, with Lt. Col. Michael Zacchea USMC, The Ragged Edge, A Marine Account of Leading the Iraqi Army 5th Battalion, the authoritative text on the U.S. military advisors struggles during the Iraq War, and which Amazon in 2021 named Editor’s Pick: Best History.

As a full-time freelance journalist based in Brooklyn, Kemp contributed to technology and business outlets, GQ and other lifestyle magazines, and boxing publications.

He began his career at Dow Jones Newswire in Jersey City, NJ. Kemp holds a MS in public affairs journalism from the University of Illinois and BA from North Carolina State University.

Ted has lived in Manhattan, Brooklyn, London, Singapore and Dubai. He an avid reader of both fiction and nonfiction, a devotee of the New York Yankees, and a former amateur boxer.