About the author

Jamil Anderlini was appointed the Financial Times’ Beijing bureau chief in February 2011, having spent four years as Beijing correspondent.

In 2010 Anderlini 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 for his video coverage of Chinese petitioners seeking justice in Beijing.

In 2008 he won a UK Foreign Press Association Award and in 2006 he won another SOPA award for his story on the Chinese "reeducation through labour" system.

Anderlini was born in Kuwait and grew up in the Middle East and New Zealand, where he received a BA from Victoria University and a post-graduate diploma 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 FT, he was Beijing business correspondent for the South China Morning Post after previously serving as chief editor of the China Economic Review.