Roula Khalaf - Financial Times Deputy Editor

Roula Khalaf is the deputy editor of the Financial Times. In this role she provides strategic direction for the FT’s editorial coverage and its large global network of foreign correspondents. An award-winning journalist, she also writes a weekly column on international affairs.

She was promoted to foreign editor came after she served for more than a decade as the FT's Middle East editor, overseeing the launch of the FT's Middle East edition and leading coverage of the financial crisis in the Gulf and later the Arab spring. Before that she was a staff writer for Forbes magazine in New York, where she focussed on corporate reporting accounting. 

Khalaf holds a masters degree in international affairs from Columbia University. She appears regularly on national and international TV and radio.  She was named foreign commentator of the year at the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards in 2016.

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