Roula Khalaf

Roula Khalaf (Arabic: رولا خلف‎) is a British-Lebanese journalist who is the editor of the Financial Times, having been its deputy editor and foreign editor. She succeeded Lionel Barber as editor on 20 January 2020.

Roula Khalaf
Khalaf in 2018
Born
Beirut, Lebanon
NationalityLebanese, British
EducationSyracuse University
Columbia University
OccupationJournalist and editor
TitleEditor, Financial Times
Term2020–
PredecessorLionel Barber
Spouse(s)Assaad W. Razzouk

Early life

Khalaf was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and grew up there during the civil war.[1] She earned a bachelor's degree from the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University in New York City.[2][3]

Career

Khalaf began her career as a staff writer for Forbes magazine in New York, and worked for the magazine for about four years.[4][1]

She has worked for the FT since 1995, first as North Africa correspondent, then Middle East correspondent, Middle East editor and as foreign editor. In 2016, she was promoted to be deputy editor of the Financial Times. In addition to her deputy editor responsibilities, she writes and comments regularly on world affairs, Middle East politics and business.[5]

Following the announcement that Lionel Barber would step down as editor of the paper in January 2020, it was announced that Khalaf would succeed him in that post.[6] She is the first female editor in the 131-year history of Financial Times.[2]

Awards

In 2009, Khalaf won The Peace Through Media Award of the International Media Awards "in recognition of her high standards of reporting and the quality of her news analysis".[7] In 2011, she was shortlisted for the Foreign Reporter of the Year category of the Press Awards.[8] In 2012, she was shortlisted for the One World Media Awards for her article, The Muslim Sisterhood.[9]

In 2013, she received, with her Financial Times colleagues Abigail Fielding-Smith, Camilla Hall and Simeon Kerr, the Foreign Press Association media award Print and Web Feature Story of the Year for Qatar: From Emirate to Empire.[10]

Khalaf is quoted in Jordan Belfort's The Wolf of Wall Street; "The press onslaught had started in 1991, when an insolent reporter from Forbes magazine, Roula Khalaf, coined me as a twisted version of Robin Hood, who robs from the rich and gives to himself and his merry band of brokers. She deserved an A for cleverness, of course."[11]

Personal life

She is married to a Lebanese businessman Assaad W. Razzouk.[12]

References
  1. "Podcast transcript" (PDF). mediamasters.fm. 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  2. Boccacino, John (26 October 2020). "Roula Khalaf '87 Leading Financial Times of London's Innovative Approach to COVID-19 Coverage". cusecommunity.syr.edu. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  3. "Roula Khalaf". World Economic Forum.
  4. "Roula Khalaf". whocomments.org.
  5. "All Articles by Roula Khalaf Since 2007". journalisted.com.
  6. "Roula Khalaf to succeed Lionel Barber as Financial Times editor". FT. 12 November 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  7. International Media Awards
  8. "Press Awards".
  9. "Press Awards". Twitter.
  10. "Foreign Press Association Media Awards". Foreign Press Association.
  11. Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street, Hodder & Stoughton, 2008, Chapter 6, page 68, ISBN 978 0 340 95375 4
  12. L'Orient-Le Jour, Succès, récompenses, bonnes causes et innovations..., 2019.12.03
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Preceded by
Lionel Barber		 Editor of the Financial Times
2020–present		 Incumbent
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