Francine Brevetti
770 California Street, #403
San Francisco, CA 94108
Home: 415-397-7830
e-mail: francine@francinebrevetti.com
CAREER
HIGHLIGHTS:
September 1998 to present: Regional reporter covering Bay
Area personal-finance, retail, high technology, banking and
foreign trade for ANG NEWSPAPERS (Oakland Tribune, Alameda
Times-Star, Fremont Argus, Hayward Daily Review, San Mateo
County Times, Tri-Valley Herald).
The Fabulous Fior — Over a Hundred Years in an Italian
Kitchen, published by San Francisco Bay Books, November
2004. www.fabulousfior.com
1985-1997, director of FRANCINE BREVETTI PRODUCTIONS in
Hong Kong
Covered foreign trade, finance, shipping and transportation
in Hong Kong, China and other Asian economies for broad
variety of periodicals . Among them (the most recent on
top):
Pensions & Investments (Crain Publications)
Seatrade
Review (U.K.)
Asian Business
The Journal of Commerce
(U.S.)
The South China Morning Post
Hong Kong Business,
monthly column
Asia Travel Trade
Asiatrade (Australia)
The
Asian Wall Street Journal
Institutional Investor
Business
International
The Christian Science Monitor
Dallas Times
Herald
San Diego Union
Newsday
The San Francisco
Examiner
China Traveller
1995 – I created and led a workshop for entrepreneurs,
teaching them how to conduct their own public relations.
1995-97 — I launched, wrote, edited and coordinated the
production of bimonthly newsletter for the China chapter of
trade association, ECA International, a worldwide
organization representing HR professionals who manage
expatriate compensation. I conducted the public relations
for the association.
1977-1985, The Journal of Commerce, New York City
Staff
writer covering insurance, banking and foreign trade
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member, advisory board, Grade the News
(www.gradethenews.org;) 2003-present
Society for
Professional Journalists, Northern California – Board of
Directors and Chair of the Program Committee,
1999-present
Women in Publishing Society, Hong Kong,
President for two terms, 1994-96
The Foreign
Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong, Member of the Press
Freedom Subcommittee
The New York Financial Writers
Association 1978-2000
Who’s Who in America 1999, 2000,
2001, 2002
Who’s Who in American Women 1999, 2000, 2001,
2002
Who’s Who in the World 2000, 2001, 2002
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley, B.A., French
University
of California, Los Angeles, M.A., Theatre Arts
Universite
de Bordeaux, part of the University of California’s Year
Abroad Program
Languages:
reading knowledge and conversational fluency in French and
Italian;
elementary Mandarin
November 2006