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Beijing Bureau Chief, Financial Times
Biography
Jamil Anderlini was named Beijing bureau chief for the Financial Times in February 2011, having already worked for four years as Beijing correspondent for the paper.
In 2010 Anderlini was named Journalist of the Year at the prestigious Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Editorial Excellence Awards, and won the Best Digital Award at the Amnesty International Media Awards for his coverage of Chinese petitioners seeking justice in Beijing.
He has won numerous other awards, including a UK Foreign Press Association Award in 2008, several individual SOPA awards and the inaugural Jones-Mauthner Award in 2012, which recognizes outstanding reporting of international affairs by a young reporter at the Financial Times.
In 2013 Anderlini was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and short-listed for Foreign Reporter of the Year at the Press Awards in the UK and also the Orwell Prize, the UK’s most prestigious prize for political writing.
He is the author of a recent ebook, published by the Financial Times and Penguin and entitled “The Bo Xilai Scandal” (2012).
Anderlini was born in Kuwait and grew up in New Zealand, where he received a BA from Victoria University and a post-graduate diploma in journalism from Auckland University of Technology. He speaks and reads Mandarin Chinese and has lived mostly in Shanghai and Beijing since 2000.
Prior to joining the Financial Times he was Beijing business correspondent for the South China Morning Post for two years. Before that, he was chief editor of the China Economic Review.
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