Eva Xiao is a data journalist at the Financial Times, where she covers a number of topics in the US, including business, politics, and climate issues.
Before joining the FT, she spent seven years as a foreign correspondent in China where her reporting spanned everything from profiling tech tycoons like ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming and digging into the supply chain of fast-fashion firm Shein, to uncovering the mass destruction of graves in Xinjiang using satellite imagery.
In 2021, one of her stories for the Wall Street Journal, which detailed China’s ethnic policy under Chinese leader Xi Jinping, was part of a series that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Prior to the WSJ, Eva covered a broad range of topics for French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP), including politics, business, culture, and human rights. She also spent a year co-hosting a bi-weekly podcast on China’s tech scene called Digitally China.
Now based in the U.S., Eva is focusing on using data, code, and maps to tell stories that matter to the public. She has a computer science degree from Dartmouth College and loves exploring datasets (and building new ones), dancing bachata, and reading in her spare time. She lives in New York City.
Send any tips, comments, or pitches to: eva.xiao@ft.com.