Elena Marsh

Elena Marsh covers the place where economics and geopolitics collide for Times of Pol. Her reporting follows the money and the materials — sanctions and trade flows, energy prices and the global scramble for critical minerals — and explains how decisions in one capital ripple through factories, markets and household budgets on the far side of the world.

She is drawn to the hidden architecture of the global economy: the chokepoints, supply chains and obscure inputs on which the visible world of goods and services quietly depends. In an era when interdependence has become a domain of competition rather than a guarantee of peace, she argues, understanding that architecture is essential to understanding power itself.

Areas of focus

Her coverage spans international trade and the weaponisation of economic interdependence, sanctions and their unintended consequences, oil and energy markets, and the contest over critical minerals and strategic materials. She writes regularly on how supply chains built for efficiency are being rebuilt for resilience — and at what cost.

Approach

Elena has a gift for making complex economics legible without oversimplifying it. She writes for readers who want to understand not just that a price has moved or a policy has changed, but the mechanism behind it. Her work is rigorous, sceptical of easy narratives, and committed to explaining the real-world consequences of decisions that too often stay buried in financial pages.