Shirley Yam is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster who started off in politics but changed track to enter China finance and business. She spent 11 years writing Money Matters, an acclaimed weekly column at the South China Morning Post.  She is now the Senior Editor of REDD Intelligence.  Shirley has also been a campaigner for press freedom in Hong Kong for  a decade.  She is the Vice-chairperson of the Hong Kong Journalists Association, the city's largest independent press union.     Shirley was raised and educated in Hong Kong.  She received her Master degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science on Chevening scholarship.