Josephine Cumbo is an award-winning journalist with more than two decades’ experience in financial journalism in the UK and abroad. She is an accomplished public speaker, event chair and globally recognised expert in pensions reporting. She has been a journalist with the Financial Times since 1998 and is currently a reporter / editor based in the London newsroom. She covers the biggest stories of the day from FTSE100 company trading updates, to breaking political developments as well as economic updates.

Prior to this appointment in July 2024, Josephine was for 10 years the paper’s Pension Correspondent, leading coverage on all aspects of pensions, from how individual savers build their retirement pots, to the role of business and government in bridging the retirement savings gap. In 2020, she was appointed the world’s first Global Pension Correspondent, where she scrutinised the investment strategies of the world’s largest public and private sector retirement plans. A recurring theme in her reporting was how pension systems around the world are under strain from rising longevity, tight fiscal budgets and declining birth rates. During her time on the pensions beat, she became a recognised expert in this field and was regularly interviewed by the media.

In addition, she is a governor of the Pensions Policy Institute, the UK’s leading research body for pensions and a Visiting Fellow of the European Institute at the LSE. She is a mentor for young journalists looking to develop their careers.