Alexandra Heal covers the private equity and private credit industries for the FT from London.

Previously Alex was a reporter on the FT's visual storytelling team, specialising in features and investigations on a variety of subjects. She also spent summer 2023 reporting from around the US as the Washington Post's Stern-Bryan Fellow. Before joining the FT she was a reporter at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism where she won the 2020 Private Eye Paul Foot Award for Investigative and Campaigning Journalism.

Alexandra Heal

Basic information

Name
Alexandra Heal
Title
Private capital reporter
Country
United Kingdom
City
London
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Supported projects

Illegal trade of pesticides and antibiotics in Europe

  • Environment
  • Healthcare

BRUSSELS - There is a big illegal market for pesticides and antibiotics and these substances will still be spread, when they get banned. The industry has been able to continue the use of chlorpyrifos and expect the use to grow in the coming years, despite it has a huge and bad impact on animals and humans.