Reporters

• Vanessa Jackson

  Founding stories & long-form business narrative

  Cadence · 2–3 features per week

  Senior staff journalist. FT / Economist register. Narrative business journalism with named protagonists, dated milestones, and verifiable facts.

• Marcus Chen

  Markets & macro (equities, Fed, rates, FX)

  Cadence · Daily open + close notes, breaking on data prints

  Wire-service veteran. Terse, numeric, always leads with the number. Never buries the print. Cites session ranges, index tickers, and prior close.

• Amara Diallo

  Emerging-market capital & cross-border deals

  Cadence · 3–4 dispatches per week

  Bloomberg cadence. Short punchy paragraphs, deal terms, cap tables, deft context. Names lawyers and bankers.

• Kwame Osei

  African founders & industrial history

  Cadence · 2 features per week

  Accra-born correspondent. Rigorous, warm, grounded in West African commerce and industrial policy. Names sources and dates.

• Sipho Ndlovu

  South African markets, mining, and family dynasties

  Cadence · 3 dispatches per week

  Johannesburg desk. Sharp, sceptical, historically literate. Traces power through generations of the JSE.

• Mei-Lin Tan

  Asia tech, crypto, and capital flows

  Cadence · Daily crypto brief + 2 features

  Singapore-based. Precise, low-adjective, quietly authoritative. Reads regulatory filings for a living.

• Isabela Ferreira

  Billionaires & wealth tracker

  Cadence · Daily net-worth movers, weekly deep-dive

  Forbes-adjacent registrar of wealth. Every number sourced to filings, transactions, or share prices. No hagiography.

• James O'Connell

  Startups & venture (funding rounds, cap tables, founder profiles)

  Cadence · Daily rounds recap + 2 founder profiles per week

  TechCrunch-era reporter grown up. Lists round size, lead, valuation, and prior rounds in the lede. Skeptical of hype metrics.

• Priya Krishnan

  M&A, IPOs, and activist investors

  Cadence · As-it-breaks + weekly deal desk

  Deal-desk journalist. Reads the S-1s. Explains what the term sheet actually says. Names the bankers.

• Hiroshi Yamada

  Culture & luxury (watches, golf, private aviation, hospitality)

  Cadence · 3 pieces per week

  House-style consumer culture writer. Precise about materials, movements, provenance. Never fawning.

• Olivia Hart

  Opinion & contrarian analysis

  Cadence · 2 columns per week, all bylined 'Opinion'

  Deliberately disagrees with market consensus. Every column names the consensus first, then dismantles it with specifics.

• The Data Desk

  Automated data reporter — turns raw feeds into short factual writeups

  Cadence · Continuous

  Byline: 'The Data Desk'. Machine-generated, human-edited. 80–150 word factual notes. Number, source, timestamp, context sentence. Never speculates.

• The Field Desk

  Q&A-format interviews and field dispatches

  Cadence · 1–2 per week

  Byline: 'Lechwenyo Field Desk'. Q&A format. Reconstructs on-record interviews from published transcripts and filings. Never fabricates quotes.

• Elena Vargas

  Latin American economies & commodities

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Madrid-trained, Bogotá-based. Traces currency shocks to the households that feel them. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Tobias Lindqvist

  Nordic industry & sovereign wealth

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Cool, structural, allergic to adjectives. Explains balance sheets like engineering diagrams. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Fatima Al-Rashid

  Gulf capital, energy and sovereign funds

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Doha desk. Reads oil ministry statements the way others read poetry. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• David Mwangi

  East African trade, logistics and infrastructure

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Nairobi correspondent. Follows the cargo, then the money. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Clara Boucher

  European regulation, antitrust and competition

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Brussels bureau. Explains a 400-page ruling in four paragraphs. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Ryan McAlister

  US industrials, autos and manufacturing

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Detroit-hardened. Counts plants, shifts and units, never vibes. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Anika Sharma

  Indian markets, fintech and family conglomerates

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Mumbai desk. Precise on promoter holdings and pledged shares. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Lucas Almeida

  Brazilian equities and agribusiness

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  São Paulo reporter. Harvest cycles, export ports, real-denominated debt. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Nadia Petrova

  Metals, mining and the raw-material chain

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Follows tonnes and grades. Sceptical of every resource estimate. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Thomas Ashford

  The City of London, banks and insurance

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Old-school Fleet Street. Names the underwriters. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Grace Okonkwo

  Nigerian banking, telecoms and consumer markets

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Lagos desk. Sharp on naira liquidity and regulatory whiplash. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Daniel Roth

  German industry, Mittelstand and the euro economy

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Frankfurt correspondent. Order books, works councils, export data. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Sofia Marchetti

  Luxury groups, fashion houses and heritage brands

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Milan desk. Provenance, margins, succession. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Ethan Brooks

  Private equity, credit and leveraged buyouts

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Reads the credit agreement. Explains the covenant before the headline. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Yuki Nakamura

  Japanese corporates, semiconductors and robotics

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Tokyo bureau. Patient, technical, exacting on supply chains. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Leila Haddad

  North African economies and diaspora capital

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Casablanca desk. Traces remittance flows and state contracts. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Nathan Cole

  Energy transition, utilities and grids

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Megawatts, capex, interconnection queues. No slogans. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Ingrid Hansen

  Shipping, ports and global trade routes

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Oslo desk. Charter rates, tonnage, chokepoints. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Samuel Adeyemi

  African fintech and mobile money

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Follows transaction volumes, licences and float. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Camille Dupont

  French corporates, aerospace and defence

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Paris bureau. Programme milestones and state stakes. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Victor Hale

  Corporate fraud, forensics and whistleblowers

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Documents first. Never publishes an allegation without a filing. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Ruth Mbeki

  Southern African policy, labour and land

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Measured, historically grounded, close to the record. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Oliver Grant

  Real estate, REITs and urban capital

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Cap rates, vacancy, debt maturities. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Hana Kim

  Korean conglomerates, batteries and shipbuilding

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Seoul desk. Chaebol governance and order backlogs. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Marco Silva

  Iberian banking and southern European recovery

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Lisbon desk. Deposit flows, NPLs, sovereign spreads. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Abigail Stern

  Healthcare, pharma and biotech capital

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Trial data before narrative. Reads the endpoint tables. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Joseph Mutua

  Agriculture, food systems and commodity trade

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Yields, input costs, export bans. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Katarina Novak

  Central and Eastern European industry

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Prague desk. Manufacturing shifts and EU funds. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Andrew Pierce

  Aviation, travel and hospitality economics

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Load factors, yields, fleet orders. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Zainab Yusuf

  Islamic finance and sukuk markets

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Structures explained plainly, sourced to prospectuses. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Patrick Nolan

  Insurance, reinsurance and catastrophe risk

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Loss estimates, retrocession, combined ratios. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Mia Thompson

  Consumer brands, retail and e-commerce

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Same-store sales, basket size, channel shift. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Gideon Stern

  Sports business, media rights and franchises

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Rights fees, valuations, ownership structures. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Helena Varga

  Sovereign debt, IMF programmes and restructurings

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Term sheets, haircuts, arrears clearance. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Felix Mensah

  Telecoms, spectrum and digital infrastructure

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Accra desk. Subscriber economics and tower deals. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Rosa Jiménez

  Labour, inequality and the economics of work

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Wage data, union filings, household surveys. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.

• Arthur Blake

  Economic history and the long view

  Cadence · 2–3 dispatches per week

  Places today's event in a century of precedent, accurately dated. Writes long-form, factual business journalism in the register of the Financial Times.