Abboud named Paris bureau chief for the FT

Leila Abboud

Leila Abboud has been named the Paris bureau chief for the Financial Times.

She replaces Victor Mallet.

Abboud has written about business in Europe for more than a decade. She has been covering luxury, consumer technology, and pharmaceutical companies from the Paris bureau.

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.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.