Vincent Ni

Vincent Ni is the Asia Editor at NPR, in which role he oversees the US 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 US on the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections. Before joining NPR, Vincent was the China Affairs correspondent for The Guardian newspaper, where he wrote about the politics, economy and changing society of the world’s most populous nation. 

Prior to The Guardian, Vincent 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 Asia Matters podcast, which was acquired by the Brussels School of Governance in 2022. 

Vincent was a 2018 Yale Greenberg World Fellow. He has lectured at the London School of Economics, City University of London, Oxford University and Yale-NUS in Singapore.