Kari Wilkin

Kari Wilkin is the managing editor at TheWeek.co.uk. She joined the site as production editor in 2017, after moving across from The Week magazine. Her career as a journalist began in national newspapers including The Sun, where she was a features sub-editor for more than six years. She also edited news stories at Metro, the Daily Star and News of the World. A shift into magazines saw her helping to launch the UK edition of Women’s Health, as chief sub-editor with a sideline in writing, followed by stints at Elle and Asda Magazine.

She has also written travel and lifestyle articles for titles including The Daily Telegraph and The Sun, and is a regular contributor on award-winning podcast The Week Unwrapped. She speaks Norwegian, having studied at Oslo University for a year with the now-defunct Erasmus scheme as part of her degree in English language and literature. After graduating from Leeds University, she spent a year teaching in Fukushima, so she knows a bit of Japanese too.