Tom Wright is a renowned journalist noted for his extraordinary contributions to journalism. He was one of the first journalists to arrive at the scene of the raid in which Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden. In 2013, Tom Wright led coverage of the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh, a catastrophic event that claimed over 1,000 lives. His reporting earned the Wall Street Journal a prestigious Sigma Delta Chi award from The Society of Professional Journalists.

He is a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Loeb Award winner, and has received numerous accolades from the Society of Publishers in Asia. In 2016, Tom Wright was named "Journalist of the Year" by the same society. He is multilingual, speaking English, Malay, French, and Italian fluently.