I’m a writer and a journalist. Currently, I’m writing international pieces at the Economist, where I’ve been a correspondent since I graduated in 2022. My cover stories include features about how working class women are shaping American birth rates, what Ukraine’s war economy reveals to the West and why foreign aid became so unpopular.

I report from around the world, mostly in places that cast light on what is happening elsewhere. Among the 20 or so areas I’ve sent copy from are crisis-torn countries (the DRC, Ukraine and Cuba), remote regions (Arctic Canada, Zambia and the Gobi Desert), a good portion of the emerging world’s metropolises (Beijing, Istanbul and Nairobi) and my own hometown (Birmingham). I’ve spent time covering economic crises and wars, and now write lots about the social consequences of economic change. Occasionally, I produce investigations. Even more rarely, I produce podcasts.

I was educated at Yale, where I was a Henry Fellow, and Oxford, where I ran Balliol’s student body.