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Leila Abboud is a journalist and commentator who has written about business in Europe for more than a decade. She is currently Paris correspondent for the Financial Times where she covers luxury, consumer technology, and pharmaceutical companies.

She joined the Financial Times in 2018 as the consumer industries correspondent, after stints as an opinion columnist at Bloomberg, and as a reporter at Reuters and the Wall Street Journal.

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