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Roula Khalaf

Deputy Editor of the Financial Times

Roula Khalaf is Deputy Editor of the Financial Times. She has worked for the FT since 1995, first as north Africa correspondent, then Middle East correspondent and most recently as Middle East editor. Before joining the FT, she was a staff writer for Forbes magazine in New York.

Roula oversees the FT’s network of foreign correspondents and bureaus. She writes regularly on global politics and business.

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