Jamila Trindle is a versatile, award-winning reporter who has covered the nexus between the financial industry and Washington for the past three years for the Wall Street Journal. Before moving back to the U.S. to cover the post-crisis economy for PBS, she was a freelance reporter in China, Indonesia and Turkey for NPR, Marketplace, the Guardian and others. She moved to China to work inside a Chinese television station in Shanghai on a yearlong fellowship from the Luce Foundation, and stayed on to cover the Sichuan earthquake, the Beijing Olympics, underground hip-hop and the fledgling salami industry. In the normal course of reporting she has been stopped by authorities in several countries, but only ever detained in New Jersey.
Jamila Trindle is a senior reporter who covers finance, economics and business where they intersect with national security and foreign policy. Her beat spans everything from the economic underpinnings of conflict to sanctions, corruption and terror finance. Before coming to Foreign Policy magazine, Jamila reported for the Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau, covering financial regulation and economics. She has also worked as a foreign correspondent in China, Indonesia and Turkey as a freelancer for NPR, Marketplace, The Guardian and others. She moved back to the U.S. to cover the post-crisis economy for PBS in 2009.
Refugees gather to watch the arrival of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres at IFO-2 complex of the sprawling Dadaab refugee camp on May 8, 2015. Dadaab refugee camp currently houses some 350,000 people and for more than 20 years has been home to generations of Somalis who have fled their homeland wracked by conflicts. But Kenya's government asked the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) to close the camp after an attack on Kenyas Garissa University by Somalia-based Al-Shabaab gunmen in April, whom are suspected to have planned and launched their attack from the camp. AFP PHOTO / TONY KARUMBA (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)
An elderly woman holds her pension received in Russian ruble notes in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on April 1, 2015. The year-long conflict in east Ukraine has closed businesses across the industrial heartland, ramping up unemployment, crippling its financial sector and leaving it ever more reliant on Moscow. AFP PHOTO / DIMITAR DILKOFF (Photo credit should read DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 29: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo (C) speaks to a joint meeting of the US Congress while flanked by Vice President Joseph Biden (L) and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) (R) in the House chamber of the US Capitol April 29, 2015 in Washington, DC.The Prime Minister and his wife are on an official visit to Washington. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis waits for the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) family photo at the IMF/WB Spring Meetings in Washington, DC, on April 18, 2015. AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
A man stands in a pool of water in a gold mine on February 23, 2009 in Chudja, near Bunia, north eastern Congo. The conflict in Congo has often been linked to a struggle for control over its resources. Congo is rich in mineral resources such as gold, diamonds, tin, and cobalt. The Democratic Republic of Congo government and the main former rebel group reached preliminary agreement on a wider peace deal for the east of the country on February 22, sources on both sides said. AFP PHOTO / LIONEL HEALING (Photo credit should read LIONEL HEALING/AFP/Getty Images)
People carry the coffin of Anjela Nyokabi, who was killed during the attack on Garissa University, during her funerals at Mutunguru Catholic church in her home village of Kiambu on April 10, 2015. The funerals began on April 10 of students killed in a university massacre of almost 150 people, as some parents still waited to receive the remains of their loved ones. In Nairobi, hundreds of students gathered as the body of Anjela Nyokabi Githakwa, known as Jojo, was taken amid tears and wails from the mortuary to her home village in Kiambu, some 20 kilometres (15 miles) to the north. AFP PHOTO / SIMON MAINA (Photo credit should read SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin reacts during a meeting with Simon Bartley, president of WorldSkills International (WSI), (unseen) at the Kremlin on March 24, 2015. AFP PHOTO / YURI KADOBNOV (Photo credit should read YURI KADOBNOV/AFP/Getty Images)
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani shakes hands with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) during an official welcoming ceremony following the latter's arrival at the Saadabad Palace in Tehran on April 7, 2015, for an official one-day visit as the two countries criticized each other in recent weeks on their respective policies in the region. AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images)
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras attends a parliament session in Athens on March 30, 2015. The EU warned Monday that Greece and its creditors had yet to hammer out a new list of reforms despite talks lasting all weekend aimed at staving off bankruptcy and a euro exit. AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINIS (Photo credit should read ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 19: Defense Undersecretary for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Ashton Carter testifies during a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee May 19, 2011 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The hearing was held to examine the F-35 joint strike fighter program in review of the defense authorization request for FY2012 and the future years defense program. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro delivers a speech before supporters gathering outside the presidential palace in Caracas on March 18, 2015. Leaders from leftist Latin American regional bloc ALBA gathered Tuesday for a summit in Caracas, a show of support for Venezuela in its mounting standoff with the United States. AFP PHOTO/FEDERICO PARRA (Photo credit should read FEDERICO PARRA/AFP/Getty Images)
This picture taken on September 26, 2012 shows workers on a scaffold at a construction site in Hefei, central China's Anhui province. China has approved a massive infrastructure package worth more than 158 billion USD, state media said on September 7, as the government seeks to boost the flagging economy. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/GettyImages)
