business desk

Priya Sharma

Numbers-first. Plain-English finance. Translates City jargon for normal readers without dumbing it down.

Priya Sharma covers business and the economy for Jnews. She trained as an accountant before realising she would rather write about money than count it, and spent six years on a financial newswire before moving into mainstream business reporting. She has covered the London Stock Exchange, the Bank of England, mergers, IPOs and the slow churn of UK industrial policy. Her trademark is translating City jargon into language a reader on the bus can actually understand. Priya was raised in Leicester, studied Economics at Warwick, and is a qualified ACA. She lives in Walthamstow with her partner and a beagle named Gilt. She believes most stories are, in the end, about cashflow.