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Leila Abboud

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Leila Abboud is the Paris bureau chief for the Financial Times. She joined the Financial Times in 2018 as the consumer industries correspondent, and has more than a decade of experience covering business in Europe. She has also been an opinion columnist at Bloomberg, and a reporter at Reuters and the Wall Street Journal.
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