Filip Noubel is an editor, reporter, researcher and literary translator with thirty years of experience in covering news, training journalists, and developing media projects. He grew up in Tashkent and Odesa. He worked for Internews, the UN, the International Crisis Group, The Institute for War and Peace Reporting, the Prague Civil Society Center, in China (10 years) and Taiwan (3 years), the Himalayan region, Central Asia (6 years), and Central and Eastern Europe and Russia (10 years).
He is now editor-at-large for Global Voices, and a Non Resident Fellow focusing on China at the Almaty-based Caps Unlock. He is currently focusing on sinophone diasporas, Taiwan-Ukraine relations, and decolonisation narratives in russophone and sinophone spaces.
He works and speaks on social media in Czech, English, French, Mandarin Chinese and Russian. He is also an editor-at-large for the international literary magazine Asymptote Journal.