Jan Cieński
Senior Policy Editor, POLITICO
Jan Cienski is Senior Policy Editor at POLITICO in Europe, overseeing our coverage of energy, climate, sustainability and mobility. In 2014-2015 he was Poland correspondent for the Economist. From 2003 to 2014 he was the Warsaw bureau chief of the Financial Times.
His main work was reporting on central Europe’s integration into the European Union, with its complicated political and economic consequences. Prior to that he spent five years as the Washington correspondent for Canada’s National Post. He also spent several years in the United States working for the Associated Press. From 1992 to 1995 he worked in Moscow for the German News Agency DPA – spending most of his time covering the brush wars that broke out after the collapse of the USSR.
He got his start as a reporter working in Warsaw for United Press International in 1989 and 1990. He was born in South Africa in 1965 and later lived in Canada, where he received a degree in international relations from the University of Toronto.
Jan Cieński
Senior Policy Editor, POLITICO
Jan Cienski is Senior Policy Editor at POLITICO in Europe, overseeing our coverage of energy, climate, sustainability and mobility. In 2014-2015 he was Poland correspondent for the Economist. From 2003 to 2014 he was the Warsaw bureau chief of the Financial Times.
His main work was reporting on central Europe’s integration into the European Union, with its complicated political and economic consequences. Prior to that he spent five years as the Washington correspondent for Canada’s National Post. He also spent several years in the United States working for the Associated Press. From 1992 to 1995 he worked in Moscow for the German News Agency DPA – spending most of his time covering the brush wars that broke out after the collapse of the USSR.
He got his start as a reporter working in Warsaw for United Press International in 1989 and 1990. He was born in South Africa in 1965 and later lived in Canada, where he received a degree in international relations from the University of Toronto.