Soumaya Keynes is the US economics editor for The Economist magazine, where Ms. Keynes covers the US economy and the Trump administration's trade policy for the print edition. Prior to joining The Economist, Ms. Keynes worked as a research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, where she worked on UK state pensions and the public finances, and as a policy adviser at HM Treasury where she worked on banking and credit. Soumaya has an M.Phil. and B.A. in Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge.