Duncan Weldon

Duncan Weldon (born 1982) is a British journalist, and former political advisor, researcher, and market strategist.

Weldon studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Somerville College, Oxford. He joined the Labour Party at age 18.

He is currently the Britain economics correspondent at The Economist, and has been with the newspaper since 2019. An economist by background he began his career at the Bank of England. Other early roles included asset management (including four years in fund management, becoming a partner at Senhouse Capital), a researcher and economics advisor for the Labour Party, and senior economist at the Trades Union Congress. and LabourList. He is the author of Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through: The Surprising Story of Britain's Economy From Boom to Bust and Back Again (2022) and Blood & Treasure: The Economics of Conflict from the Vikings to Ukraine (2025).