Patrick Foulis. Foreign Editor, The Economist.

Patrick Foulis is the Foreign Editor of the Economist, responsible for its global coverage and network of correspondents around the world. He writes many of the newspaper's editorials and, unusually, his career blends geopolitics and diplomacy with economics and finance. He has lived in mainland China, Europe, India and the United States. 

Before he became a journalist Patrick worked as an investment banker on the No 1 ranked telecoms team at UBS in London. He worked as Deputy Editor for the Financial Times' Lex Column and joined the Economist in 2008. As a writer he has been banking editor, finance correspondent, Mumbai bureau chief, New York bureau chief and written the Schumpeter Column on global business. As a manager and leader he ran the "back half" of the Economist - its economics, business, finance and science coverage worldwide. In 2022 he was appointed to run the "front half" of the newspaper - the foreign coverage. 

Patrick has written on geopolitics, the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, China and India, global economics and markets, and on business around the world. He is the author of The Economist‘s special reports on the world economy, business in Asia, business in India and banking in emerging markets. He and four colleagues won a Gerald Loeb Award coverage of the eurozone. In 2025 he was a media fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Patrick graduated with a double first class degree in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University. He is from Scotland.