Mark Galasiewski (gala-SHEV-skee) began his analytical career in May 2001 at an institutional brokerage in Stamford, Connecticut, researching fundamentals for a broker who specialized in short-sell recommendations. After joining Elliott Wave International (EWI) in 2005, Mark contributed to Robert Prechter’s Elliott Wave Theorist and then joined EWI’s Global Market Perspective team covering Asian stock indexes.

Since 2008 he has also edited EWI’s monthly market publication, the Asian-Pacific Financial Forecast. For six years during the 1990s he lived in Japan. He has also traveled to many other countries whose markets he analyzes. A graduate of Middlebury College (Vermont, USA) in East Asian Studies, he is fluent in Japanese and conversant in Mandarin Chinese.