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Jonathan Leff

Global Editor, Financial News Strategy

Jonathan Leff is Global Editor, Financial News Strategy at Reuters, responsible for maintaining and deepening the strategic partnership between the Editorial organization and Refinitiv, the financial services firm that is Reuters’ largest customer. He is also responsible for overseeing the strategic newsrooms in Bangalore, India, and Gdansk, Poland, which now produce thousands of alerts and stories a month in a dozen languages. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Jonathan joined Reuters as a local correspondent in Lithuania in 1998; he moved to London two years later, the start of a 15-year career as an oil and commodity markets specialist. After running regional reporting teams from Singapore and New York, he went on to become Reuters global editor for commodities, overseeing coverage by a staff of more than 150 reporters, columnists and editors worldwide. He also raises chickens.