Heather Timmons is QZ's first White House correspondent. Previously she was the QZ bureau chief for Asia, based in Hong Kong, where she ran a team covering China's global rise. She covered business and finance in London and New Delhi over 10 years with the New York Times, and was the banking editor at BusinessWeek in New York, where she covered risky lending, corruption on Wall Street, and a post-9/11 city. Heather started writing about finance at the Daily Deal and American Banker.