Duncan Weldon (journalist)

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Duncan Weldon
Born
Peter Duncan Weldon

1982 (age 4142)
Northumberland, England, UK
NationalityBritish
Alma mater Somerville College, Oxford
OccupationJournalist
Employer The Economist (2019-present)
Political party Labour Party

Duncan Weldon (born 1982) is a journalist, [1] and former political advisor, [2] researcher, [3] and market strategist. [4]

Weldon studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Somerville College, Oxford. He joined the Labour Party at age 18. [5]

He is currently the Britain economics correspondent at The Economist , [6] and has been with the newspaper since 2019. [7] An economist by background he began his career at the Bank of England. Other early roles included asset management (including four years in fund management, becoming a partner at Senhouse Capital), [8] a researcher and economics advisor for the Labour Party, and senior economist at the Trades Union Congress. [9] [2]

Weldon was appointed as BBC Newsnight 's Economics and Business editor in 2014. [5] He announced his departure from the BBC in November 2015, following which he became head of research at the financial investment firm Resolution Group. [10] [4] He was briefly at Legal & General Investment Management between February and October 2019, as a strategist on the asset allocation team, advising on investment research and allocation decisions. [11] [12] [7]

Weldon previously wrote blogs at the Left Foot Forward website [13] and LabourList. [14]

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References

  1. "Duncan Weldon". Archived from the original on 28 February 2021. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Duncan Weldon | Authors | CLASS".
  3. "About – Duncan Weldon".
  4. 1 2 Rigby, Elizabeth. "Fresh blow for BBC as reporters quit Newsnight".
  5. 1 2 Rayner, Gordon (21 March 2014). "Newsnight economics editor Duncan Weldon's 'embarrassing' fascist past" via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  6. "Duncan Weldon". Archived from the original on 28 February 2021. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
  7. 1 2 "Duncan Weldon exits LGIM after eight months". 30 October 2019.
  8. "Letters: Remedies for a broken economy". TheGuardian.com . 16 October 2009.
  9. "Duncan Weldon". 2 August 2019.
  10. @DuncanWeldon (27 November 2015). "Both looking forward to the new job and sad to be leaving Newsnight. Thus concludes "personal announcement Twitter". 3/3" (Tweet) via Twitter.
  11. "Former BBC man boosts LGIM's multi-asset team". 13 February 2019.
  12. @DuncanWeldon (11 February 2019). "Some personal news: started at LGIM as a strategist on the multi asset team today" (Tweet) via Twitter.
  13. "Duncan Weldon - Left Foot Forward". leftfootforward.org. 19 February 2014.
  14. "Duncan Weldon – LabourList". 22 September 2013.
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Preceded by Economics Editor: BBC Newsnight
2014 – present
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