Javier Blas

Javier Blas is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist who writes about energy and commodities, a post he took in 2022 after serving as Bloomberg News's chief energy correspondent. Before joining Bloomberg in 2015 he worked at the Financial Times, where he was commodities editor, ran its oil and commodities coverage and launched the FT's annual commodities summit, and later Africa editor. He previously worked at the Spanish business daily Expansión and is a graduate of the University of Navarra.