Jenni Marsh

on July 16, 2014

Jenni Marsh is a British editor and feature writer. After joining the Daily Mail’s sub-editing graduate scheme in 2009, she worked for several years on the newspaper’s feature desk in London. She is now Assistant Editor of Post Magazine at the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. As a freelance writer, she has been published in the South China Morning Post, the Daily Mail, The Independent, The Guardian, The Sun, and Grazia. She is currently researching the African diaspora in Guangzhou, China, with a grant from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

Eric Olander

on July 16, 2014

Eric Olander is the Founder of the China Africa Project, producer of the China in Africa Podcast which he co-hosts.

Olander is a media executive based in Shanghai, China. Currently, he is employed by Prism Communications as the Managing Editor of the Ford Motor Asia Pacific Content Factory, where he works exclusively to produce automotive content for the Ford Motor Company’s nine Asia Pacific markets. (Prism Communications, WPP, or any of its affiliates are not affiliated with the China Africa Project.)

Prior to joining Prism Communications in 2017, Olander spent five years in Vietnam, where he led ELLE magazine’s digital division and served as the General Director of Financial & Business News Channel (FBNC), Vietnam’s largest financial news channel. Before that, he worked as a broadcast and digital journalist for more than 25 years with many of the world’s leading news organizations including CNN, the BBC World Service, and FRANCE 24, where he was the Editor in Chief of the network’s digital division.

Olander is fluent in both French and Mandarin Chinese. He received his undergraduate degree in East African History from the University of California, Berkeley and received a Master’s in International Public Affairs with a focus on Chinese Foreign Policy from the University of Hong Kong.