Mark Dreyer - Host City speaker

Mark Dreyer

Position: Founder, China Sports Insider

Formerly a football reporter with Sky Sports in the UK, Mark Dreyer has been covering sports around the world for close to 20 years. A veteran of three Olympic and Paralympic Games (Beijing, Vancouver, London 2008-12), where he was an accredited journalist, he has also been a reporter and producer for both Fox Sports and AP Sports in the US.  

A multi-sports specialist who has reported on sports events in five different continents, his first love is football and he has previously interviewed stars including Pele and David Beckham. He has worked with a number of media outlets in China and is regularly asked to comment on the Chinese sports industry for BBC, CCTV, CNBC, Bloomberg, Financial Times and many others. Mark has been based in China since 2007 and runs the China Sports Insider website.