Elena Torrijos
Elena Torrijos
Editor-in-chief, Yahoo News and Finance, Verizon Media Southeast Asia
Elena Torrijos is an award-winning journalist with over 20 years of experience working in the Philippines and Singapore. She is currently Yahoo News and Finance editor-in-chief for Verizon Media in Southeast Asia, managing a team of content producers, reporters and editors based in Singapore. She is a former managing editor for The Asian Banker, a regional financial publication. She won the “Local Journalist Award” in the 2006 SOPA Awards in the category for regional newspapers, large magazines and wire services published in English. She is also founder of a personal finance magazine in the Philippines called MoneySense. She was a business reporter for The Philippine Daily Inquirer, the country’s leading broadsheet, for more than five years before she moved to Singapore in 2004. She was a finalist three times for the Jaime V. Ongpin Awards for Excellence in Journalism. Before Inquirer, she was a reporter for The Business Daily, a business paper, for several years.