Keith Richburg joined RFA’s Board of Directors in September 2021. From 2016-2023 he was the director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at the University of Hong Kong. While serving as bureau chief in Beijing and Hong Kong for the Washington Post, he reported on the 1997 Hong Kong handover and the Chinese Communist Party’s 18th Party Congress in Beijing in 2012. Additionally, from 2021-2023, he served as President of the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club.