QUENTIN HARDY is deputy technology editor for The New York Times and a former lecturer at U.C. Berkeley's School of Information. He is the former Silicon Valley Bureau Chief for Forbes magazine, where he had previously been senior editor from March 1999 to April 2002, covering the technology industry from the Silicon Valley bureau. Prior to joining Forbes, Hardy spent eight years at The Wall Street Journal. While based in the Journal's Tokyo bureau from 1991 through 1994, he reported on the Japanese banking crisis and market collapse.
From 1994 until 1999, he covered the wireless industry and Silicon Valley culture from the paper's San Francisco office. He also worked at AP/Dow Jones newswire in Tokyo from 1988 to 1991, covering Asian energy markets and natural resources. Hardy is a regular on "Forbes on Fox," a weekly business news show on Fox News Channel, and he hosts numerous panels on technology and business at events around the US.
Hardy is a graduate of Kenyon College and has a Masters degree from the University of London. In 1995 he was awarded a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship from the Columbia University School of Journalism