Financial Times hires Keynes as podcast host and columnist

Soumaya Keynes

The Financial Times has hired Soumaya Keynes as an economics podcast host and columnist.

Keynes is currently Britain economics editor at The Economist and will join the FT in the summer.

In her column, Keynes will write about the new ideas, old arguments and current debates over the economy and how they are shaping our world. She will also host a new weekly economics podcast that will launch in 2024.

“I am delighted that Soumaya has decided to join the FT as a columnist and podcast host,” said FT editor Roula Khalaf in a statement. “She is an outstanding commentator and presenter, and will provide an authoritative new voice in the FT’s world-class line-up of economics writers.”

Between 2017-21, Keynes was also the co-host of the “Trade Talks” podcast. Before joining The Economist, she was a research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, where she worked on UK state pensions and the public finances, and a policy adviser at HM Treasury focused on banking and credit.

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.