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Roula Khalaf
Roula Khalaf with her colleagues Katie Martin, Editor, fastFT and Gillian Tett, US Managing Editor, Financial Times
Born
Beirut, Lebanon
NationalityLebanese, British
EducationSyracuse University
Columbia University
Occupation(s)Journalist and editor
TitleEditor-designate, Financial Times
Term2020-
PredecessorLionel Barber

Roula Khalaf is the editor-designate of the Financial Times, having been its assistant editor and foreign editor. In November 2019 it was announced that she would succeed Lionel Barber as editor at the start of 2020.

Education

Khalaf was born in Beirut, Lebanon, and grew up there during the civil war.[1] She earned a bachelor's degree from Syracuse University, and a master's degree in international affairs from Columbia University in New York.[2]

Career

Khalaf started her career as a staff writer for Forbes magazine in New York, and worked for them for about four years.[3][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.[4]

Following the announcement that Lionel Barber would step down as Editor of the paper in January 2020, it was announced that she would succeed him in that post. [5]

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.[6] In 2011, she was short-listed for the Foreign Reporter of the Year Category of the Press Awards[7] In 2012, she was shortlisted for the One World Media Awards for her article 'The Muslim Sisterhood.'[8][better source needed] In 2013, she won, 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.”[9]

In film

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.”[10] She is fictionalized as Aliyah Farran (played by Sandra Nelson) in Martin Scorsese’s 2013 movie, The Wolf of Wall Street.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b "Podcast transcript" (PDF). mediamasters.fm. 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  2. ^ "Roula Khalaf". World Economic Forum.
  3. ^ "Roula Khalaf". whocomments.org.
  4. ^ "All Articles by Roula Khalaf Since 2007". journalisted.com.
  5. ^ "Roula Khalaf to succeed Lionel Barber as Financial Times editor". FT. 12 November 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  6. ^ International Media Awards
  7. ^ "Press Awards".
  8. ^ "Press Awards". Twitter.
  9. ^ "Foreign Press Association Media Awards". Foreign Press Association.
  10. ^ Jordan Belfort, The Wolf of Wall Street, Hodder & Stoughton, 2008, Chapter 6, page 68, ISBN 978 0 340 95375 4
  11. ^ "The Wolf of Wall Street Full Cast and crew". IMDB.
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