Mei works at the intersection of storytelling, policy, and technological disruption. At Windfall Trust, she shapes the global conversation around AI's economic and societal impact — helping policymakers, researchers, and the public grapple with how it is reshaping work and governance, and with ensuring its gains are shared broadly. She was previously Chief Media Officer at Human Rights Watch, overseeing the organization’s digital transformation, including the launch of HRW’s first TikTok channel, newsletter revamp and an award-winning podcast that more than tripled and broadened the organization’s audience and won Webby awards. Before that, she was Director of Strategic Communications at the investigative newsroom Center for Public Integrity, where she launched podcast The Heist, a DuPont Award–finalist on systemic economic failure. She started out as a Wall Street Journal correspondent, sharing in the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for coverage of China's economic boom. Some of that reporting became the basis of her award-winning book, One Child, an examination of one of the largest social experiments in modern history that still shapes how she thinks about large-scale technological change today.
Mei is Malaysian born and raised, with a B.A (Hons) from National University of Singapore and a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia. She was a New America fellow and on Foreign Policy's Top 50 U.S.–China influencers. Her work and writing has been featured in CNN, PBS, John Oliver, New York Times, Foreign Policy, Guardian and Atlantic.
