POLITICO BRUSSELS KEY NEWS EDITORS BY POLICY AREAS

Energy and Security News Editor

Jan Cienski : In 2014-2015 he was Poland correspondent for the Economist. From 2003 ro 2014 he was the Warsaw bureau chief of the Financial Times. His main work was reporting on Central Europe’s integration into the European Union , with its complicated political and economic consequences. Prior to that he spent five years as the Washington correspondent for Canada’s National Post. He also spent several years in the United States working for the Associated Press. From 1992 to 1995 he worked in Moscow for the German News Agency DPA- spending most of his time covering the brush wars that broke out after the collapse of the USRR. He got his start as a reporter working in Warsaw for United Press International in 1989 and 1990. He was born in South Africa in 1965 and later lived in Canada, where he received a degree in international relations from the University of Toronto.

Trade and Agriculture Editor

Christian Oliver: Immediately prior to joining POLITICO, Christian worked for the Financial Times in Brussels, covering competition policy. He started his journalism career with Reuters in London in 2002 before being posted to Iran and Latin America. He joined the FT as Korea correspondent in 2008 and was the newspaper’s deputy analysis editor from 2012 to 2014.

Health and Policy News Editor

Kim Dixon: Kim joins POLITICO’s Brussels team after a year and half leading the Washington bureau’s tax policy team, a topic she covered for about seven years. Dixon, a University of Pennsylvania and Columbia Journalism School graduate, is excited to return to health policy, where she got her start. She cut her teeth covering the Food and Drug Administration, where she broke news on drugmakers’ compliance- and lack of) with FDA rules and public health, including the anthrax scare after September 11. Dixon also spent five years dissecting the finances of for-profit health insurance and hospital companies, including their attempts to tame medical costs in the run-up to Obamacare.

Technology Editor

Noelle Knox: She has 25 years of journalism experience in newspapers, magazines, TV, radio and online. She has worked for the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, USA Today, Bloomberg News, and the Detroit News. Noelle has reported news from 16 foreign countries and a dozen U.S. states. She has covered some of the biggest stories of our time, including the U.S. real estate and financial crisis, the September 11 attacks on New York, the death of Pope John Paul II from the Vatican, NATO operations from Afghanistan, and the dot-com bust of 2000. She holds a degree in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Financial Services Editor

Charles Lee: A Korean-American, Charles has more than two decades of experience as a journalist and analyst. He began his career in the foreign news department at Newsweek in New York, where he covered the UN’s response to the Bosnian crisis. He spent 17 years in Asia, first tracking the Asian financial crisis for the Far Eastern Economic Review as its Seoul correspondent, and the Internet boom and crash for Time Inc. magazines as a Hong Kong based business writer. Between 2002 and 2009, he covered the rise of China as an op-ed editor for the South China Morning Post and as a business editor for the Economist Intelligence Unit. Most recently, Charles was managing editor and research director for the Asian Corporate Governance Association, a Hong Kong-based NGO that works closely with socially responsible investors from around the world. Before becoming a journalist, he also had stints as a researcher at the Congressional Research Service in Washington and the OECD in Paris, where he followed the European Economic Community’s transition to the European Union with not a little sense of awe. Charles has a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a master’s from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston, where he studied international relations.

Enterprise Editor

Stephan Faris: Responsible for special projects, the front-page of the weekly newspaper, and the Forum and Opinion sections online and in print. Before joining POLITICO, Stephan spent 15 years as a magazine journalist, filing stories from across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. His stories have appeared on the covers of the Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fortune Magazine and TIME Magazine, and in Foreign Policy, the New York Times Magazine, and the New Yorker. He is also a founder of Deca, a global collective of journalists producing longform non-fiction and the author of ‘Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Artic, from Darfur to Nappa Valley’. From 2014 to 2016, he was an Associate Editor at Project Syndicate, editing op-eds by prominent political leaders, policymakers, scholars, business leaders and civic activists.

News Editor

Craig Winneker: Craig has spent more than 25 years working in journalism and communications in Washington and Brussels. Craig started in journalism as a writer for ‘The McLaughlin Group’ television show. He joined Roll Call in 1989 as a reporter and rose through the ranks, eventually becoming managing editor. He took over the paper’s popular ‘Heard on the Hall’ column in 1990 and bylined it through most of the next decade, giving it a unique voice and a tone that was totally proto-Twitter. While still at Roll Call, he helped conceive, launch and edit Capital Style magazine, which covered the culture of power and performance art of politics in Washington. In 2000 Craig moved to Brussels to be deputy editor of European Voice. In 2007 he joined the Wall Street Journal Europe as editor of the Weekend Journal section. From 2011-2015 he worked in communications for the solar and chemical industries.

Transparency,Lobbying and Governance Reporter

Quentin Ariès: Quentin has a track record of shedding light on the complex world of EU transparency, lobbying oversight and governance- and breaking news that matters to policy professionals and beyond. He is a co-author of Brussels Influence, a weekly midday intelligence and analysis briefing on the EU lobbying and governance covering everything from EU institutions’ revolving doors, EU official diaries and additions to the Transparency Register to lobbying trends, NGO reports and follow-ups to in-depth investigations. He drowned himself voluntarily into digital journalism in 2010 for the Observatoire Boivigny, a French website specializing in higher education, where he was contributions curator, reporter and web administrator. He was also a newsroom intern at Euractiv.fr a,d Contexte.com, Paris-based EU affairs publications. Quentin has freelanced in Brussels for French media and is still a contributing editor and board member of the Belgian arm of the European magazine Cafébabel. Quentin graduated from the international program on European Governance from the University of Kent in the UK, and Sciences Po Grenoble in France.

 

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