From a University of Hawaii press release:

Duckworth has been Publisher of Hong Kong University Press since 2009, helping to lift annual new title releases in English and Chinese, while raising the Press’s visibility in many subject areas at academic conferences and trade fairs.  In recent years, Duckworth has initiated expanded involvement with emerging electronic publishing models; increased productivity by adding several new positions in Editorial, Production, and Marketing; and extended fundraising efforts to support heavily illustrated titles in art and architecture.  He served for a year as Associate Publisher starting in early 2008, supervising Humanities acquisitions and managing key series such as TransAsia Screen Cultures, Queer Asia, as well as new efforts in Asian Art, Architecture, Film Studies, Cultural Studies, and Health Sciences.

From 1995 to 2008, he served as Acquisitions Editor and later Executive Editor at the University of Washington Press, where he managed lists and developed hundreds of new works in Asian Studies, American Ethnic Studies, Middle East Studies, Jewish Studies, Russian/East European Studies, Architecture, Information Sciences and regional trade books in Natural History.  Duckworth has served as a member of the editorial board (and its precursor, the publications committee) of the Association for Asian Studies since 2000. 

Prior to joining scholarly publishing, from 1990‐94 he worked as a copy editor for The Wall Street Journal in New York and as a reporter for The Asian Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong.  While in New York, he edited features on global politics and commerce, wroteheadlines, indexes, and wire service summaries for the European and Asian editions of The Wall Street Journal based in Brussels and Hong Kong.  As a reporter for The Asian Wall Street Journal in 1991‐92, Duckworth wrote business and cultural features about Hong Kong and China, as well as local news stories.

Duckworth obtained his Master’s degree in Journalism and in International and Public Affairs from Columbia University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Modern Chinese history and literature from Reed College.

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