Henry Curr has led The Economist’s economics coverage since 2018—through the covid-19 pandemic, the return of inflation, Europe's energy crisis of 2022, the American banking crisis of 2023 and the Trump trade war of 2025. He writes the bulk of The Economist’s economics leaders (editorials), and has done so for dozens of cover stories, and often writes the annual world economy special report. His videos on economics have over 10m views across platforms.

Henry’s journalism has cited by policymakers and academics in Europe and America, and he is a past winner of the Society of Professional Economists’ Rybczynski Prize for economics writing. He sits on the advisory council of University College London's Policy Lab and is a Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College at the University of Oxford.

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. He 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.

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Henry often appears on television and radio, and moderates or speaks at events. His events experience includes on-stage discussions with Nobel-prizewinners, appearing as a panelist at the International Monetary Fund and Brookings Institution, chairing conferences and giving presentations to investors and financial institutions.

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