Filip Noubel is an editor, reporter, researcher and literary translator with thirty years of experience in covering news, training journalists, and developing projects.
He is Editor at large for Global Voices, and Senior China Analyst for the Prague-based AMO think-tank. His current research focuses on sinophone diasporas, China-Francophone Africa relations, Taiwan-Ukraine relations, and decolonization narratives in the russophone and sinophone spaces.
Noubel worked for Internews, the UN, the International Crisis Group, The Institute for War and Peace Reporting, the Prague Civil Society Center, in China and Taiwan, the Himalayan region, Central Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe.
He worked for media projects in Beijing for over 10 years, and currently spends long periods in Taipei (Taiwan).
Czech/French by birth, Noubel grew up in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and Odesa (USSR).
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.
Noubel studied at Charles University in Prague and at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris.
He divides his time between Taipei, Prague and Dakar.