Reina Sasaki is a Project Researcher (Consultant) on FPF’s APAC Privacy and AI Governance team. She brings eight years of experience spanning technology policy and journalism across Washington D.C., Singapore, Tokyo, and beyond.
Prior to joining FPF, Reina led corporate and earnings coverage for Japan and Korea at Bloomberg News, coordinating in real time with teams across Asia, Europe, and North America to deliver market-moving intelligence to a global investor audience. She also championed news product innovation in collaboration with engineering teams and provided live market analysis on Bloomberg TV covering APAC.
Before Bloomberg, Reina served as a Legal Policy Specialist on Twitter’s Trust and Safety team in Singapore, where she was the institutional liaison for law enforcement and government agencies across Japan, the Indo-Pacific, Europe, and the United States. She managed over 1,500 cross-jurisdictional legal requests spanning election interference, disinformation, terrorism, and human trafficking, and developed and enforced cross-market platform safety policies.
She has also contributed to multilateral internet governance as a panelist at the UN Internet Governance Forum in Taiwan and as a host-nation task force member for IGF 2023 in Kyoto, and served as a Research and Data Consultant at UNITAR. Earlier in her career, Reina reported on U.S. trade and economic policy for the Yomiuri Shimbun from Washington D.C., conducting on-the-record interviews with senior cabinet members, economic policymakers, and presidential candidates. She covered the U.S.-China trade war, sanctions regimes, and fiscal policy across major federal institutions including the Commerce Department, Treasury, USTR, Federal Reserve, IMF, and World Bank, and served as a selected press pool member for Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
Reina holds a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a selected cohort member of the AI and Media Policy Institute at Jesus College, University of Oxford.