Sofia Diogo Mateus is POLITICO Europe’s Audience Development Editor. In this role, she is responsible for maximizing the impact of POLITICO journalism by building audiences and engaging with readers.
Prior to joining POLITICO, Sofia worked at Deutsche Welle for six and half years, where she was responsible for all English social media coverage of the 2016 US election. She became Facebook editor for the English news department in 2018 and led homepage engagement efforts in 2020.
Born and raised in Portugal, Sofia studied journalism in London, European studies in the Netherlands and Denmark and public policy, with a focus on digital regulation, at the Hertie School in Berlin.