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Reuters taps Slodkowski as UN bureau chief

September 15, 2026

Posted by Chris Roush

Antoni Slodkowski

Reuters has named Antoni Slodkowski as its United Nations bureau chief

He has been the chief politics and general news correspondent in China at Reuters for the past three years.

He previously was a Tokyo correspondent, based in Japan, for the Financial Times.

Slodkowski previously was at Reuters for 11 years, most recently as acting deputy bureau chief in Tokyo. In this role, he led the politics and general news team, while working with reporters on everything from market-moving spot to agenda-setting enterprise stories.

He also led the bureau’s Olympic coverage before the 2020 games were postponed, and ran coverage of the pandemic’s outbreak and its aftermath. Slodkowski started reporting for Reuters in Tokyo in 2010 as a currency and equity markets correspondent and later switched to politics and general news.

Slodkowski graduated from SOAS, University of London.

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