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Tej Parikh

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Tej Parikh is the Financial Times's economics leader writer. He also writes the Sunday version of the Free Lunch newsletter on the global economic policy debate. Before joining the FT he was a director of economics at Fitch Ratings and chief economist at the Institute of Directors.

Tej has also written for numerous international outlets on issues covering global affairs and public policy, and was previously a journalist for The Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh.

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