Vincent Ni

Vincent Ni is the Asia Editor at NPR, overseeing the U.S. public broadcaster’s coverage from Afghanistan to Japan. As an international journalist, he has reported from the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. He also reported from the U.S. on the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections. Before joining NPR, Ni was the China Affairs correspondent for The Guardian, where he wrote about the politics, economy, and changing society of the world’s most populous nation. Prior to The Guardian, Ni spent seven years at the BBC. He worked across platforms and launched an internal forum called BBC Asia Brief. In 2019, he created and edited the Asia Matters podcast, which was acquired by the Brussels School of Governance in 2022. Ni is a graduate of the University of Oxford. He has lectured at the London School of Economics, City University of London, Oxford University, and Yale-NUS in Singapore.