Roula Khalaf to replace Lionel Barber as Financial Times editor
Deputy editor to become FT’s first female editor after almost year-long recruitment process
The Financial Times has appointed its first female editor, announcing that Roula Khalaf will replace Lionel Barber at the top of the business newspaper.
Khalaf has served as deputy editor since 2016, with the newspaper emphasising her role in leading its foreign reporting and her work on increasing newsroom diversity and attracting more female readers.