Al Omran rejoins Financial Times as Saudi correspondent

Ahmed Al Omran

Ahmed Al Omran has rejoined the Financial Times as its Saudi Arabia correspondent.

He previously worked for the FT from 2017 to 2020.

Al Omran graduated with a master’s degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has worked for the National Public Radio in Washington before returning to his home country to become a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal between 2013 and 2017.

He was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in 2021-2022. Earlier in life, his blog “Saudi Jeans” was one of the most well-known and longstanding blogs in the Middle East. His work has also appeared in other major publications such as the New York Times, the Guardian and Foreign Policy.

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.