Javier Blas
Javier Blas is Chief Energy Correspondent at Bloomberg News and covers
Javier Blas was appointed Financial Times’ commodities editor in 2010, having joined the newspaper in 2007 as commodities correspondent. He led a team of reporters based in London, Beijing and New York covering oil, metals and agricultural commodities markets, trading houses, and the geopolitics of natural resources.
Previously, he reported on the international economy for the leading Spanish business daily, Expansion. Blas was awarded the A. H. Boerma prize by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation for his coverage of the 2007-08 food crisis.
He was born in Spain and received a BA / MA in journalism from the University of Navarra, Spain, where he specialized in business journalism. He also studied political communication at Sheffield University, United Kingdom.
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