Hello, I’m Cerian…

On the Economist’s cover, I’ve written about how low income women are shaping American birth rates, what Ukraine’s war economy reveals to the West and why foreign aid died. From Arctic Canada to the Middle East, my coverage takes me to the busiest metropolises - and the world’s most remote corners.

I was educated at Oxford, where I ran Balliol’s Junior Common Room, and Yale, where I was a Henry Fellow. I became a correspondent in 2022, after graduating. My beat now stretches from international institutions to war economics and global poverty. I cover demography too, especially why women are having fewer children. A final strand of pieces chart the relationship between the natural world, resources and local populations, including the strain on the Arctic.

I record podcasts when I’m abroad, work across video and appear on TV and radio outlets. I write about the social consequences of economic change. I try to find places that cast light on what is happening somewhere else. Above all, I’m interested in how the economy, so distant from most people’s individual choices, shapes our daily lives.