About

Katie Stallard is Senior Editor, China and Global Affairs, at the New Statesman and the author of Dancing on Bones: History and Power in China, Russia, and North Korea (Oxford University Press) - selected as a political book of the year 2022 by the Financial Times, Sunday Times, and BBC History magazine. She is also a non-resident global fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC, and has written for publications including The Atlantic, Times Literary Supplement, Wall Street Journal, Sunday Times, and Foreign Policy.

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. In China, she reported from inside the Great Hall of the People during the 19th Party Congress, watched Xi Jinping cast his vote to remove term limits on the presidency, and travelled across the country covering domestic politics, the economic slowdown, and the crackdown on civil society. In the wider region, she travelled out into the disputed waters of the South China Sea to document China’s artificial island-building (on a wooden fishing boat), into the mountains of Myanmar to interview rebel fighters (on the back of 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 also travelled frequently to Ukraine, leading the channel’s coverage of the Maidan revolution in Kyiv, Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, and the subsequent conflict in eastern Ukraine.

She graduated from University College London with a first class degree in English and hold a master’s degree in War Studies, with distinction, from King’s College London.

Originally from the Scottish Highlands, she 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. But all of that pales in comparison to her latest challenge: motherhood.