INVESTMENT MONITOR - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Founder and CEO of Lebec Consulting
Glenn Barklie is chief economist at Investment Monitor and head of FDI services at Global Data Media. He was previously with Financial Times, where he was the head of benchmarking services for fDi Intelligence. With almost 15 years' experience in FDI and economic development, he has worked with many government agencies and corporates, specialising in location benchmarking, rankings and investment trends as well as managing FDI databases.
Jon Whiteaker is a senior editor at Investment Monitor focusing on FDI in the energy sector. He is also Middle East and Africa editor. He joined from Euromoney Institutional Investor. He has been a business and finance journalist for more than a decade, five of which he spent as the editor of IJGlobal - a leading news and data title covering energy and infrastructure finance. Jon has reported on transactions and investment trends across all continents and is an experienced leader and participant in industry events.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director of CINDE, the Costa Rican Investment
Jorge Sequeira, managing director of CINDE, the Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency, tells Investment Monitor how the country's stability, talent pool, customer focus and sustainability credentials help keep it competitive for investment
Lara Williams is editor of Verdict technology. An experienced writer, Lara previously worked as deputy editor of the Financial Times's fDi Magazine. Lara has a background in technology journalism writing for the UK's Computing magazine and has spent much of the past decade living in Silicon Valley.
Richard Gardham is the managing editor of Investment Monitor, overseeing editorial output for the site. He joined from the Financial Times where he was production manager across a number of titles, including The Banker and fDi Magazine. Richard has worked in magazine production for 25 years, with a career spanning numerous national newspapers and business-to-business publications.
Sebastian Shehadi is political editor at Investment Monitor and a contributing writer for the New Statesman. He joined from the Financial Times, where he was an editor at fDi Magazine (undertaking dozens of high-profile interviews with the likes of Ban Ki-moon and Portuguese PM Antonio Costa). Sebastian's special interest include geopolitics, corrosive capital and emerging markets, and he has written for the FT, BBC, Sifted and Middle East Eye. Prior to his journalism career, he served as a political risk analyst at Citibank.