About

Katie Stallard is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, journalist and author of the forthcoming book Dancing on Bones: History and Power in Russia, China, and North Korea, to be published by Oxford University Press. She has written for Foreign Policy, The National Interest, The Diplomat and others, and appeared as an analyst for multiple media outlets.

Previously based in Russia and China as a foreign correspondent for Sky News, she has reported from more than twenty countries to date, covering conflicts, natural disasters, and some of the world’s most repressive regimes.

From Beijing, she reported extensively on North Korea, travelling to Pyongyang, the DMZ, Seoul, and the China-North Korea border, and covering multiple missile and nuclear tests. As well as covering Chinese domestic politics, she travelled out into the disputed waters of the South China Sea (on a wooden fishing boat), into the mountains of Myanmar (on a motorbike), and to Marawi in the southern Philippines, where she broadcast under sniper fire from ISIS-linked militants.

During her time in Russia, she led the channel’s coverage of the crisis in Ukraine, covering the Maidan revolution in Kyiv, the annexation of Crimea, and the subsequent conflict in eastern Ukraine.

Originally from the Scottish Highlands, Katie likes to take on foot-based endurance challenges her friends think are bonkers, and has so far run marathons, ultramarathons, or triathlons in Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Mongolia, Taiwan, the DMZ, and across a frozen lake in Siberia. She is currently tackling her biggest challenge to date: motherhood.