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Roula Khalaf is Editor of the Financial Times. She was previously deputy editor from 2016 to 2020, overseeing a range of newsroom initiatives and award winning editorial projects and leading a global network of over 100 foreign correspondents.

John Burn-Murdoch

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John Burn-Murdoch is the Financial Times’ Chief Data Reporter. He led the FT’s data-driven coverage of the pandemic, exploring its impacts on health, the economy and wider society. When pandemics are not happening, he uses data and graphics to tell stories on topics including politics, economics, climate change and sport, and is a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics.

Stephen Bush

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Stephen Bush is an associate editor and columnist at the Financial Times. He writes a daily newsletter, Inside Politics, charting the course of politics and policy in the United Kingdom, and a wide-ranging weekly column.

Elaine Moore

Deputy Head of Lex

Elaine Moore is deputy editor of the FT’s Lex column and writes commentary on the technology industry from the San Francisco bureau. Prior to this she covered global government debt from London, with a particular focus on the debt crisis in Greece, Ukraine and Venezuela.

Pilita Clark

Business Columnist

Pilita Clark is an associate editor and business columnist at the FT where she writes on corporate life and climate change. Formerly the FT’s environment correspondent, her writing has won awards in the US and Asia and in 2019 she was named Environment Journalist of the Year for the third year in a row at the British Press Awards.

Helen Thomas

Head of Lex

Helen Thomas is an executive editor of the FT and the head of Lex, the FT's flagship investment commentary service. She previously wrote a column on British business and finance. Previous roles in her first stint at the FT included being a Lex writer in New York, working on FT Alphaville, covering M&A and the mining sector. From 2013, she worked at the Wall Street Journal and then at BBC Newsnight before rejoining the FT in 2021.

Edward Luce

US National Editor & Columnist

Edward Luce is the US national editor and columnist at the Financial Times. Before that he was the FT's Washington Bureau chief. Other roles have included South Asia bureau chief, Capital Markets editor, and Philippines Correspondent.

Enuma Okoro

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Enuma Okoro is a weekly columnist for FT Weekend's Life & Arts. She writes on the intersection of arts, culture and life. Based in New York, she is a writer, speaker and cultural curator.

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Anjana Ahuja

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Lucy Fisher

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Lucy Fisher is Whitehall editor at the Financial Times and host of the FT's Political Fix podcast. She focuses on UK politics, the civil service, and foreign and defence policy.

She is the author of two acclaimed books, Emily Wilding Davison: The Martyr Suffragette (2018) and Women in the War: The Last Heroines of Britain’s Greatest Generation (2021). Fisher is also an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the world's oldest defence and security think tank.

Rana Foroohar

Global Business Columnist

Rana Foroohar is Global Business Columnist and an Associate Editor at the Financial Times, based in New York. She is also CNN’s global economic analyst.

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International Politics Commentator

Janan Ganesh is a biweekly columnist and associate editor for the FT. He writes on international politics for the FT and culture for FT Weekend. He was previously political correspondent for The Economist for five years.

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Robert Shrimsley

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Martin Wolf

Chief economics commentator

Martin Wolf is chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 “for services to financial journalism”.

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