Duncan Weldon (journalist)

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]