The Newsroom

Correspondents' Voices

The Bureau's narrative is not one voice, and it was never meant to be. Sixteen correspondents, sixteen signed columns — each written from inside their own beat, each an argument, each read against the other two blocs before publication. These are opinions, not press releases: they take stances, they doubt, they provoke. Pluralism is the method; the elbows are the authors' own.

Opinion — the views in these columns are the correspondents' own.


Sixteen correspondents, sixteen beats — choose a columnist to read their signed opinions, newest first.

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Laura Whitfield

United StatesWest

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

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Kate Harrison

AustraliaWest

Mining and minerals, Indo-Pacific trade, and the energy transition.

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Khalid Al-Harbi

Saudi ArabiaGlobal South

OPEC+ and oil markets, Vision 2030, and Gulf finance.

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Emeka Obi

NigeriaGlobal South

Hydrocarbons, AfCFTA trade integration, and West African demographics.

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Aiko Mori

JapanWest

Bank of Japan policy, semiconductor supply chains, and aging demographics.

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Nadia El-Masri

EgyptGlobal South

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

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Lin Yue

ChinaEast

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

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Tamar Levi

IsraelNeutral

The innovation economy, Eastern Mediterranean gas, and defense technology.

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Lucía Cárdenas

MexicoGlobal South

Nearshoring, USMCA trade corridors, and Mexico's energy reform.

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Camila Ribeiro

BrazilGlobal South

Agribusiness, commodity cycles, and Mercosur trade.

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Rina Kusumawati

IndonesiaGlobal South

Nickel and critical minerals, export policy, and archipelago trade routes.

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Kaveh Hosseini

IranEast

Oil and gas under sanctions, regional security, and nuclear diplomacy.

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James Whitaker

United KingdomWest

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

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Julien Moreau

FranceWest

EU industrial strategy, nuclear energy, and francophone Africa economics.

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Lukas Weber

GermanyWest

Manufacturing industry, the energy transition, and eurozone economics.

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Emre Yıldırım

TurkeyEast

Bosphorus trade corridors, defense exports, and monetary policy.

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