Ylan Mui
Managing Director, Strategy
Experience
- Washington correspondent, CNBC
- Economics reporter, The Washington Post
- Host, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal
Biography
Ylan Mui joined Penta as a managing director after two decades in journalism. She was senior congressional correspondent at CNBC, covering Capitol Hill with a focus on fiscal policy. Prior to TV, Ylan spent 14 years as a reporter at The Washington Post. Her work spanned the nascent Trump administration, the Federal Reserve, the Great Recession and the 2008 global financial crisis. She also served as a weekend host of C-SPAN’s public affairs call-in show, Washington Journal.
Ylan has interviewed leading policymakers, such as former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke and former House Speaker Paul Ryan. She has reported from London, Athens, Italy, Brazil and Vietnam. And her stories have taken her to a soybean farm in Indiana, a lobster boat off the coast of Maine, and beach week in Ocean City, MD.
Ylan began her career writing obituaries and answering phones at The Times Picayune in New Orleans. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, three kids, and two cats.