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MARCH 2019 businesstraveller.comCONTRIBUTORS
JENNY SOUTHANFormerlyBusiness Traveller’s features editor, Jenny
Southan is editor and founder of Globetrender, an
online magazine and trend forecasting agency
dedicated to the future of travel. An award-winning
travel journalist, she writes for publications
includingMr Porter,The Telegraph,Forbes,Wired
andCity AM. For this issue she rounds up the latest
crop of new airlines that are bidding to capture
their own corner of the skies; see page 62.JEREMY TREDINNICKAformereditorofBusiness Traveller Asia-Pacific,
Jeremy once worked in the scuba diving industry as a
divemaster and dive journalist. Having explored
many of the Pacific’s top diving sites, he knew that
Okinawa in Japan would offer good underwater
experiences. “What I didn’t expect was that my
biggest jaw-dropping fish encounter would be on
land,” he says. Find out what he means on page 32.BENJAMIN SOUTHANDAVID WHITEHOUSEDavid spent 17 years in Paris with Bloomberg as a
financial editor. He is the author of In Search of
Rwanda’s Génocidaires: French Justice and the Lost
Decades and co-author of We Didn’t Start the Fire:
My Struggle for Democracy in Cambodia by long-time
opposition leader Sam Rainsy. He now writes for
London financial curation service Substantive
Research. Here he investigates the opportunities and
challenges facing African aviation; see page 48.PERSOLAISEPersolaise is the nom de plume of Dariush Alavi, an
award-winning perfume critic and author of
perfume guide Le Snob. His blog is one of the most
respected sources of independent fragrance reviews
in the world. In this issue, he turns his nose to one of
the most mysterious and expensive ingredients in
the world – oud – and recommends luxury scents to
make an impression with; see page 74.