Fellows

Leah Nylen

Leah covers antitrust for Politico. She previously spent eight years at MLex, a regulatory news service owned by LexisNexis, where she led a global team of reporters focused on competition policy. She has also written for Bloomberg and Congressional Quarterly. Leah was an Abe Journalist Fellow in 2014 and spent her time in Japan focused on a reporting project on price- fixing cartels and cartel deterrence policies.

Philip Cunningham

Philip J Cunningham is a freelance writer and media consultant with an interest in journalism, politics and culture. He was trained in Asian studies at Cornell University and the University of Michigan and has worked in East Asia since 1983. He started working as a tourguide for study abroad programs and luxury tours, including a stint on the luxury yacht formerly used by Chairman Mao as a Yangtse River cruise director. He moved into film production work, including credits on two Academy Award winning films, The Last Emperor and Empire of the Sun. He has worked on numerous television documentaries,

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