Stacy-Marie Ishmael
Stacy-Marie Ishmael is a New York-based reporter for the Financial Times and a blogger for Financial Times Alphaville, the multi-award winning markets blog. Her beats include credit derivatives, structured finance, capital and emerging markets and issues related to sovereign debt.
Ishmael joined the Financial Times as a graduate trainee after attaining a BSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
She has appeared as a financial commentator on the BBC World Service, The Leonard Lopate Show on NPR, and on CNBC and PBS television stations.
She has lived and worked in the Caribbean, the US, the UK and Europe, and is fluent in French.