Jamil Anderlini

Editor-in-Chief of POLITICO Europe

Jamil Anderlini is Editor-in-Chief of POLITICO Europe, a role he took up in October, 2021. Since joining POLITICO, Jamil has overseen the launch of numerous new products and rapid expansion into new geographies and product lines. Under his leadership, web traffic to POLITICO.eu has doubled, as have revenues to the European part of POLITICO’s business.

Jamil joined POLITICO from the Financial Times, where he was chief editor for Asia starting in January, 2016.

Jamil is an award-winning journalist. He is fluent in spoken and written Mandarin Chinese. Over two decades working as an editor and journalist in China and Asia, he cultivated a deep knowledge of the political and economic situation in the region.   

Jamil joined the FT in 2007 and worked as Beijing Correspondent and Deputy Beijing Bureau Chief before he was named Beijing Bureau Chief in 2011, with overall responsibility for China coverage at the FT. Jamil  won numerous reporting prizes, both individually and as part of FT teams.

In 2010, he was named Journalist of the Year at the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Editorial Excellence Awards and won the Best Digital Award at the Amnesty International Media Awards. Other prizes include a UK Foreign Press Association Award in 2008, several individual SOPA awards, including best feature of the year in 2017 and best opinion writer in 2020. He won the inaugural Jones-Mauthner Award in 2012, which recognises outstanding reporting of international affairs by a young reporter at the Financial Times. In 2013, Jamil 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 as well as the Orwell Prize, the UK's most prestigious prize for political writing. 

In April 2016, Jamil was awarded a certificate of completion for the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21^st Century Programme, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government Executive Education. In November, 2018, he was invited to Yale University as a Poynter Fellow and Cowles Visitor to participate in public conversations with professors and President of the University Peter Salovey. Jamil was a member of the advisory board for the Edward R Murrow Center for a Digital World at Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy from 2015 until 2020. In 2019, Jamil was named a Finance Leaders Fellow at the Aspen Institute.

Prior to joining the FT, 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. Born in Kuwait, he holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and a post-graduate diploma in journalism from the Auckland University of Technology.

He is the author of the e-book The Bo Xilai Scandal, published by Penguin and Financial Times in 2012.