Yasmeen Serhan is an American-British journalist with nearly a decade of experience reporting for some of the world’s most trusted news organizations.

She joined Reuters in January 2025 as Digital Features Editor, where she oversees recurring series such as City Memo, Culture Current, AI&Us, Inside Track, and Emotional Currency.

Before Reuters, Yasmeen covered foreign affairs for leading American magazines. As a correspondent for TIME, she wrote cover stories, profiles, and in-depth analysis from the magazine’s London bureau. Her work included the first major foreign media interviews with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf, as well as a profile of Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O’Neill.

Previously, she was a staff writer at The Atlantic, where she covered global affairs with a focus on the rise of populism and nationalism. Based in London, she helped launch the magazine’s UK bureau in 2017, having started as an editorial fellow on its news desk in Washington, D.C.

Yasmeen has reported extensively on the far right, autocracy, and democratic backsliding, as well as on Brexit, vaccine nationalism, and global protest movements. She is also a regular panelist on the British politics podcast Oh God, What Now?

A native of California, she studied international relations at the University of Southern California, where she served as managing editor of the Daily Trojan, the university’s newspaper of record. She can be found on Twitter @YasmeenSerhan and Bluesky @yasmeenserhan.bsky.social, as well as on Substack at Foreign Correspondence.