Louisa Lim

Louisa C. Lim is a journalist and author. She is the co-host of The Little Red Podcast, an award-winning podcast covering China. Lim holds a PhD in journalism from Monash University. Her thesis is titled In Search of the King of Kowloon: Hong Kong’s Identity Crisis and the Media Creation of an Icon. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne where she teaches audio journalism and podcasting. Lim was born in London to an ethnic Chinese Singaporean father and a British mother. She worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC and NPR in China for a decade, from 2003 to 2013. She has stated that her level of speaking Cantonese was "shamefully basic" but she identifies as a Hong Konger regardless.