Shibani Mahtani is a journalist who reports om Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. Currently, she is the Southeast Asia correspondent for The Washington Post. Previously, she was based in Chicago, where she covered politics and policing in the Midwest for the Wall Street Journal. Before that she was the first Myanmar-based correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Southeast Asia. Mahtani received her B.S. in Government and History, from the London School of Economics, and her M.S. in Journalism from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.