- US-China Correspondent at Financial Times
- Previously served as Washington Bureau Chief, US Politics Correspondent, Pentagon & CIA Correspondent, Washington Business Correspondent and South China Correspondent
- Spent four years running the FT’s Asia news operations from Hong Kong
- US-China Correspondent at Financial Times
- Previously served as Washington Bureau Chief, US Politics Correspondent, Pentagon & CIA Correspondent, Washington Business Correspondent and South China Correspondent
- Spent four years running the FT’s Asia news operations from Hong Kong
Demetri Sevastopulo is the US-China Correspondent at the Financial Times. He covers US relations with China and the Indo-Pacific. He previously served as Washington Bureau Chief, US Politics Correspondent, Pentagon & CIA Correspondent, Washington Business Correspondent and South China Correspondent. He also spent four years running the FT’s Asia news operations from Hong Kong.
Demetri is widely recognized as one of the best reporters on US-China relations. He has an enviable record of world-class scoops. These include stories on China flying a hypersonic weapon around the globe, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi traveling to Taiwan, and CIA director Bill Burns making a secret trip to China. He also covered the 2016 and 2020 US presidential races and was Washington Bureau Chief during the first Trump administration. Demetri has interviewed everyone from President Donald Trump to Donald Rumsfeld and Robert McNamara.
Demetri began his career as a currency derivatives trader at Citibank in Japan. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin and 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 fluent Japanese, rusty Mandarin Chinese and basic Cantonese. He was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, but has spent one quarter of his life in Asia (Tokyo, Hong Kong & Beijing).