Mark Russell

Mark Russell is a former journalist with experience working on newspapers in New Zealand, on London’s Fleet Street and in Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, he worked as a journalist for the South China Morning Post and for the Hong Kong Tourism Board.

Mark is the immediate Past President of the Hong Kong New Zealand Business Association, a former past president of environmental education charity Leave No Trace New Zealand, and a trustee of The South West New Zealand Endangered Species Charitable Trust. He is a previous director of strategic communications and media for the Asia New Zealand Foundation. 

He is also a former founding partner of leading New Zealand communications agency Ideas Shop, and now travels Aotearoa full time in his motorhome, providing remote strategic communications support to a select group of clients.