US-China Correspondent, Financial Times
Demetri Sevastopulo covers US relations with China and the Indo-Pacific. In over two decades at the FT, Demetri has also served as Washington Bureau Chief, US Politics Correspondent, Pentagon & CIA Correspondent, Washington Business Correspondent and South China Correspondent. He also spent four years in Hong Kong running the FT’s Asia news operations. In a previous career, he was a currency derivatives trader at Citibank in Tokyo.
Demetri grew up in Ireland and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin. He spent most of the 90s living in Tokyo and Beijing. He has an MA in East Asian studies from Harvard University. He studied Chinese at Beijing University and Japanese at Sophia University in Tokyo. He speaks near-native Japanese, rusty Mandarin Chinese and basic Cantonese. In his spare time, he is an amateur photographer (www.demetrisevastopulo.com)
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