Chris Bishop has been a journalist for 35 years and has travelled Africa for the last 22. He has interviewed almost every leader in sub Saharan Africa including Mandela, Mugabe, Kaunda, Chissano and Zuma. Aside from this, he has reported from the war in Angola and the Congo; along with trouble spots in Zimbabwe Zambia and Mozambique. Bishop was appointed as the founding editor of Forbes Africa, in May 2011, and launched the magazine four months later. He won the Sanlam Award for excellence in financial journalism in 2011 and the Pica Editor of the Year award in 2013. In 1987, he won the Sir David Beattie Award for excellence in journalism for his investigation into assassination attempt on the Queen. Bishop began his career in newspapers in England and worked for many years at the BBC, Sky Television , SABC, CNBC Africa and TVNZ. He is married with two children and lives in Johannesburg.
The Moyo and the KUDUwave boothless audiometer was used to do the first transatlantic teleaudiology hearing test in history and is used on the ISS.