Demetri Sevastopulo

Demetri Sevastopulo covers U.S. relations with China and the Indo-Pacific at Financial Times. He previously served as Washington bureau chief, U.S. politics correspondent, Pentagon and CIA Correspondent, Washington business correspondent and South China correspondent. He also spent four years in Hong Kong running the FT’s news operations in Asia. 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 has spent close to 15 years living in Asia, in Tokyo, Beijing and Hong Kong. He has an M.A. in East Asian studies from Harvard University, and he studied Chinese at Beijing University and Japanese at Sophia University. He speaks near-native Japanese, rusty Mandarin Chinese and basic Cantonese.