When I was six, I took a screwdriver and dug a hole the size of a fist in my bedroom wall. It took me weeks to break through the bricks. My parents asked why I did it. I answered as if it was obvious: “I wanted to know what the wall was made of.” That curiosity and discipline of verification drove me to journalism.
Thess is the UK editor for Expana, based in London and covers EMEA markets . She leads a squad of market reporters across four continents, steering both daily news and in-depth features on commodity markets. She advises on narrative tone and structure, and works with data teams to translate complex market information into compelling, accessible stories.
In the past, her work has appeared in Argus Media, The New York Times, The Copenhagen Post, Are We Europe, The Local, and the AIPS.
She has lived in seven countries. This gives her a global perspective that she takes to her reporting.
The International Sports Press Association – AIPS, in a year with record submissions (over 1,800), listed Thess among the TOP 10 for Young Reporters in Broadcasting in 2023.
She holds a Postgraduate degree in Financial and Economic Reporting from Nebrija University. And also has an MA in Journalism, Media, and Globalisation: War and Conflict at Swansea University. The MA began at Aarhus University, the DMJX, and the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She also has another MA in International Defence and Strategic Studies from the University of Granada.
During her time in Berkeley, she reported on California’s response to COVID-19 for The New York Times as part of an NYT-Berkeley initiative. On June 24th, her first piece at the NYT was published.
After graduating high school in the U.S., she got her bachelor’s degree in Bilingual Journalism with additional training in Law at Carlos III University of Madrid, which included a year abroad at the University of Richmond in Virginia.
In 2018, she was one of five from her country chosen to attend a Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Program as a fully funded scholar in Chinese Culture, Economics, and Real Estate.
At 16, she began writing for a political magazine in Madrid. Today, her writings have been published in national newspapers in the U.S., U.K., Spain, Denmark, and in pan-European magazines.
She reports in Spanish and English and can speak some German.
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