Lucy Hornby is the Beijing-based correspondent for Reuters Insider, a financial news channel launched by Reuters in May 2010. She has reported for Reuters in Beijing and Shanghai since 2004, traveling from the North Korean to the Pakistan border, from Ulan Bator to 1 km below the earth in a coal mine. Her specialties are politics, trade and investment issues, as well as steel and commodity markets. She previously covered Latin America for Energy Intelligence from New York, and Asian energy investment and markets for Dow Jones from Singapore. Lucy has spent 11 years in China since she first arrived in Wuhan as an English teacher in 1995. She is in her second term as vice president of the Foreign Correspondents Club of China.