The global economy: America up, China down

Speakers

• Henry Curr

  Economics editor

  Henry Curr has led The Economist’s economics coverage since 2018—through the covid-19 pandemic, the return of inflation, the energy crisis and the American banking crisis of 2023. Henry writes the bulk of The Economist’s economics leaders (editorials), and has led or contributed to over thirty cover stories. He is the author of special reports on inflation, the world economy after the pandemic and regime change in economic policy. Henry’s journalism is cited frequently by policymakers in Europe and America and in 2021 he won the Society of Professional Economists’ Rybczynski Prize for economics writing. Henry joined The Economist as Britain economics correspondent in 2014 and was the newspaper’s main writer on the American economy from 2015-18, a period that included the first monetary tightening since the global financial crisis and the first half of the Trump administration. Henry has a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and an M.Phil. in Economics, both from the University of Oxford, where he was the John Hicks Foundation prize winner.
• Alice Fulwood

  Wall Street correspondent

  Alice Fulwood is The Economist'’s Wall Street correspondent, covering a range of topics about banking and the financial system in America. She is also the co-host of Money Talks, the paper’s podcast on economics, business and finance. She is based between New York and Washington, DC She first joined the paper in 2018 on an internship sponsored by the Marjorie Deane Foundation, a charity where she now serves as a trustee. In 2019 she won the “Young Journalist of the Year” award from the Wincott Foundation for her work on quantitative investing and technology in finance. She was nominated for the Wincott “Journalist of the Year” category in 2021 for her work on digital money and decentralised finance. In October 2021 she issued an image of an The Economist cover as a non-fungible token and auctioned it off. It sold for $420,000, and the net proceeds were donated to The Economist Educational Foundation, an independent charity. Prior to joining The Economist she worked for an investment bank. During her tenure she was based in Singapore as an economist covering Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. She also worked as a foreign exchange spot and derivatives sales trader in London. Alice graduated from the University of Cambridge, where she studied economics.
• Simon Cox

  China economics editor

  Simon Cox is the China economics editor at The Economist, based in Hong Kong. He has spent over 15 years with the newspaper, including stints in London and Delhi. In 2014, he left journalism to become an investment strategist and Managing Director for BNY Mellon, before returning to the paper in 2016. During his career at The Economist, Mr Cox has written a variety of special reports. He examined the world’s arduous recovery from the global financial crisis (“The Long Climb”, 2009), China’s surprisingly resilient economy (“Pedalling Prosperity”, 2012) and the exaggerated perils of the middle-income trap (“Out of the Traps”, 2017). He also originated the Li Keqiang index, an unofficial proxy for China’s growth. Outside of his day job, Mr Cox edited “The Growth Report”, published by the Commission on Growth and Development, chaired by Nobel laureate Michael Spence. He contributed to the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China and he edited “Economics: Making Sense of the Modern Economy” (Profile Books). He has also been a frequent guest on television and radio, including CNBC, Bloomberg and the BBC. He studied at Cambridge, Harvard and the London School of Economics.