Demetri covers US relations with China and the Indo-Pacific. He previously served as Washington Bureau Chief, US Politics Correspondent, Pentagon & CIA Correspondent, and South China Correspondent. He also served as Asia News Editor in Hong Kong managing the Financial Times regional news operations. 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 a quarter of his life in Asia (Tokyo, Hong Kong & Beijing).
