Roula Khalaf is Deputy Editor of the Financial Times, and used to be Assistant Editor and Foreign Editor.In addition to her Deputy Editor responsibilities, she writes and comments regularly on world affairs, Middle East politics and business. She has worked for the FT since 1995, first as North Africa correspondent, then Middle East correspondent, Middle East Editor and most recently as Foreign Editor. Before joining the FT, she was a staff writer for Forbes magazine in New York.In 2009, Khalaf won “The Peace Through Media Award” of the International Media Awards “in recognition of her high standards of reporting and the quality of her news analysis. In 2011, she was short-listed for the Foreign Reporter of the Year Category of the Press Awards In 2012, she was shortlisted for the One World Media Awards for her article 'The Muslim Sisterhood.' In 2013, she won, with her Financial Times colleagues Abigail Fielding-Smith, Camilla Hall and Simeon Kerr, the Foreign Press Association media award Print and Web Feature Story of the Year for “Qatar: From Emirate to Empire.” Wikipedia