Jamil Anderlini

Asia Editor
Financial Times

Jamil Anderlini was appointed Asia editor at the Financial Times, based in Hong Kong, in 2016, after serving as Beijing bureau chief since 2011. He joined the FT as Beijing correspondent in 2007.

Prior to joining the FT, Anderlini was Beijing business correspondent for the South China Morning Post for two years and, before that, chief editor of the China Economic Review.

Anderlini has won numerous journalism awards. In 2013, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and short-listed for both Foreign Reporter of the Year at the Press Awards in the UK and the Orwell Prize, the UK's most prestigious prize for political writing.

Anderlini received the inaugural Jones-Mauthner Award in 2012, which recognises outstanding reporting of international affairs by a young reporter at the FT. In 2011, he was named Journalist of the Year at the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Editorial Excellence Awards and receieved the Best Digital Award at the Amnesty International Media Awards.

In 2012, he wrote the e-book The Bo Xilai Scandal, published by Penguin and the FT.

Anderlini is from New Zealand, where he received a BA from Victoria University and a post-graduate diploma in Journalism from Auckland University of Technology. He has lived in China and Hong Kong since 2000 and is fluent in Chinese.

Find him on Twitter @jamilanderlini.