Sixteen correspondents in sixteen capitals, one founder, one standard: no single capital owns the whole truth.
The Bureau's correspondents are posted in their capitals and write in their own time zones, filing to a research desk that checks every fact before it reaches the page. They were hired for two things: knowing their beat cold, and being willing to argue with their own side when the facts demand it.
The Morocco desk is covered by the Editor-in-Chief himself. Everything else is filed from the ground — Riyadh, Mexico City, Cairo, Perth, Tehran, Jakarta, Tel Aviv, Beijing, Paris, Tokyo, Lagos, São Paulo, Berlin, London, Washington, and Istanbul.
Founder
Founder & Editor-in-Chief — Morocco desk
After years of watching the same story framed three different ways by rival capitals, Younesse had a vision: a newspaper that gives the world clarity. He founded the Bureau on that idea, writes one column a month, and covers the Morocco desk himself. He is the author of Nations vs Corporations: An Economic (R)evolution. He counts himself lucky that a team of brilliant minds joined him to build it.
Each writes the news from their capital and argues their opinions in Voices — click a card to read their columns.
American politics, Washington explainers, the afternoon newsletter.
Washington. She has explained American politics to readers outside the Beltway for a decade — a Washington Post politics reporter and the author of the weekday afternoon newsletter The 5-Minute Fix. Amber writes about power the way a good teacher talks: plainly, fast, and without the jargon. When Washington does something strange, she tells you why it matters.
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OPEC+ and oil markets, Vision 2030, Gulf finance.
Riyadh. He reads OPEC+ communiqués the way other people read weather — for what they don't say. When ministers talk about “market stability,” Khalid translates it into barrels, and barrels into who gets paid. His columns tend to arrive before the market has finished digesting the news.
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Nearshoring, USMCA trade corridors, Mexico's energy reform.
Mexico City. She covers the factory floor of the new North America. Nearshoring was a buzzword before Lucía started counting the actual trucks crossing at Nuevo Laredo. She writes about trade the way it happens — in contracts, border queues, and power grids — not the way press releases describe it.
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Moroccan business, African retail, consumer markets.
Casablanca. Dounia spent six years running retail for Inditex and three moving sugar for COSUMAR — she reads the African consumer the way traders read tickers. Her argument: the economy isn’t what ministers announce, it’s what shoppers decide.
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Mining and minerals, Indo-Pacific trade, the energy transition.
Perth. She covers the holes in the ground the energy transition is built on — lithium, iron ore, rare earths — and the ports that carry them out. Kate has little patience for green rhetoric that forgets the mining, and she says so, loudly, with numbers. Australia digs; she explains what the digging means.
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Oil and gas under sanctions, regional security, nuclear diplomacy.
He writes about an economy under siege from the inside of the siege. Oil still flows, money still moves, deals still get done — Kaveh maps the channels the sanctions were supposed to close. His beat is the gap between what the sanctions say and what the tankers do.
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Nickel and critical minerals, export policy, archipelago trade routes.
Jakarta. Indonesia decided its nickel would no longer leave the country raw, and Rina was there when the export ban redrew the map of the battery age. She covers the archipelago's trade routes — the straits, the smelters, the deals — with the eye of someone who knows every policy has a port attached.
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The innovation economy, Eastern Mediterranean gas, defense technology.
Tel Aviv. She writes about an economy that builds radar systems and then sells the company that built them. Innovation, gas fields, defense tech — Tamar covers the machinery of a country that turned necessity into an export industry. Her columns are allergic to mystique; she prefers balance sheets.
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Industrial policy, technology self-reliance, critical-mineral supply.
Beijing. Industrial policy is not a theory to her — it is the factory district she walks through. Lin writes about China's drive for technological self-reliance and the mineral supply chains it runs on, with a reporter's suspicion of both official triumph and foreign panic. The truth, she insists, is usually in the customs data.
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EU industrial strategy, nuclear energy, francophone Africa economics.
Paris. He covers a continent trying to reindustrialize while arguing about the electricity bill. Nuclear plants, EU strategy papers, francophone Africa's economies — Julien reads Brussels the way a mechanic reads an engine: for what is actually connected to what. Dry wit, French; conclusions, universal.
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Bank of Japan policy, semiconductor supply chains, aging demographics.
Tokyo. She has watched the Bank of Japan do the unthinkable so many times it stopped being unthinkable. Aiko writes about monetary policy, chip supply chains, and a country growing older faster than any other — with the precision her beat demands and the calm it requires. When she says a number matters, it does.
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Hydrocarbons, AfCFTA trade integration, West African demographics.
Lagos. He covers the oil that built Nigeria and the trade deal — AfCFTA — meant to build what comes after. Emeka writes about West African demographics the way generals write about terrain: it decides everything, and everyone underestimates it. His columns have a habit of being quoted by people who disagree with them.
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Agribusiness, commodity cycles, Mercosur trade.
São Paulo. Soybeans, iron ore, beef — she writes about the commodities that feed the world and the cycles that punish the people who grow them. Camila covers Mercosur with a trader's memory for the last crash and a reporter's nose for the next one. When Brasília announces a plan, she reads the fine print out loud.
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Manufacturing industry, the energy transition, eurozone economics.
Berlin. He covers the workshop of Europe at the moment the workshop is being rewired — the energy transition, the car industry's electric gamble, the eurozone's slow arithmetic. Lukas writes about German manufacturing without romance and without schadenfreude: just the machines, the money, and the choices.
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Global consumer brands, marketing, and corporate power.
Casablanca. A marketing manager at Procter & Gamble since 1999 — working with Johnson & Johnson, Bank of America, Sony Entertainment Music, and L’Oréal — Malika writes about brand power: how the world’s biggest corporations decide what billions of people buy, and what that means for everyone else.
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Bosphorus trade corridors, defense exports, monetary policy.
Istanbul. He stands where the Bosphorus narrows and watches the world's trade squeeze through — grain, oil, warships, drones. Emre covers Turkey's defense exports and its monetary experiments with equal skepticism. Two continents, one strait, and a columnist who trusts neither's press releases.
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