Demetri covers US relations with China and the Indo-Pacific. In over two decades at the FT, he has served as Washington Bureau Chief, US Politics Correspondent, Pentagon & CIA Correspondent and South China Correspondent. He was also based in Hong Kong from where he ran the FT’s regional news operations in Asia. Demetri began his career as a currency derivatives trader at Citibank in Japan. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin and holds an MA in East Asian studies from Harvard University. He also studied at Beijing University and 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 more than a quarter of his life in Asia (Tokyo, Hong Kong & Beijing).
