The LSE Directory / Trading influencers
Javier Blas is a Spanish journalist based in London who writes about energy and commodities as an opinion columnist at Bloomberg, having previously served as Bloomberg's chief energy correspondent and, before that, as commodities editor at the Financial Times, where he founded the FT Commodities Global Summit and the FT Africa Summit. He began his career at the Spanish business daily Expansion and has covered oil, OPEC, metals, agriculture and the geopolitics of natural resources for more than two decades, receiving the UN FAO's A.H. Boerma Award for coverage of the 2007-08 food crisis. With Jack Farchy he co-authored The World for Sale (2021), a book on the billionaire commodity trading houses that was shortlisted for the FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and named an Economist Book of the Year. His X account, with roughly 393,000 followers per the platform's public count, is a widely referenced source of chart-driven commentary on oil prices, OPEC decisions and commodity market disruptions.
