Jonathan Watts is a journalist and author. Currently, he is the Guardian's Global Environment Editor. Before that, he was their Latin America correspondent. Watts has covered the North Korean nuclear crisis, the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, the Sichuan earthquake, the Beijing Olympics, the Copenhagen climate conference, and developments in China's media, society and environment. His fist book, "When a Billion Chinese Jump: How China Will Save the World - or Destroy It," was published in 2010. His second book, "Standing Up For a Sustainable World," was published in 2020. Watts was as president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China from 2008-2009 and was vice president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan from 2001-2003. In 2018, he received the SEAL Environmental Journalism Award. Watts received his B.A. in English Language and Literature from The University of Manchester and his M.A. in Japan Area Studies from SOAS University of London.