Voices

Younesse Bouziani

One column a month. After years of watching the same story framed three different ways by rival capitals, he had a vision: a newspaper that gives the world clarity. He counts himself lucky that a team of brilliant minds joined him to build it.

Khalid Al-Harbi

OPEC+ and oil markets, Vision 2030, and 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.

Lucía Cárdenas

Nearshoring, USMCA trade corridors, and 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.

Nadia El-Masri

Nile water politics, sovereign debt, and the Suez corridor.

Cairo. The Nile is eleven countries' worth of argument flowing through one river, and Nadia has spent her career inside that argument. She writes about water as what it is — power — and about Egyptian debt as what it is: a story about who gets to say no. Few people can make a dam feel like a cliffhanger; she can.

Kate Harrison

Mining and minerals, Indo-Pacific trade, and 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.

Kaveh Hosseini

Oil and gas under sanctions, regional security, and 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.

Rina Kusumawati

Nickel and critical minerals, export policy, and 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.

Tamar Levi

The innovation economy, Eastern Mediterranean gas, and 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.

Lin Yue

Industrial policy, technology self-reliance, and critical-mineral supply chains.

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.

Julien Moreau

EU industrial strategy, nuclear energy, and 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.

Aiko Mori

Bank of Japan policy, semiconductor supply chains, and 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.

Emeka Obi

Hydrocarbons, AfCFTA trade integration, and 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.

Camila Ribeiro

Agribusiness, commodity cycles, and 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.

Lukas Weber

Manufacturing industry, the energy transition, and 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.

James Whitaker

City of London finance, UK–EU trade, and monetary policy.

London. The City runs on confidence and he measures it daily — gilt yields, deal flow, the pound's mood. James writes about British finance and UK–EU trade with the dryness of a man who has seen three “new eras” come and go. His monetary policy columns are read by people who set the stuff.

Laura Whitfield

Federal Reserve policy, fiscal politics, and the dollar's reserve-currency role.

Washington. She reads the Federal Reserve's dot plots like literature and fiscal politics like a crime novel. The dollar's reserve-currency role is the spine of everything she writes — who borrows in it, who fears it, who wants out. Laura's rule: follow the money, then follow it again.

Emre Yıldırım

Bosphorus trade corridors, defense exports, and 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.