Julian Pecquet is the US correspondent for Jeune Afrique / The Africa Report, the leading global news source on African business and politics. Based in Washington, he covers a host of US-based institutions including the Joe Biden administration and Congress as well as the United Nations and the World Bank / International Monetary Fund.

Julian previously wrote about US policy in the Middle East and North Africa for Al-Monitor, a US-based online publication, where he won several national awards for his coverage of foreign lobbying. He is also the founder of Foreign Lobby Report, a news site dedicated to coverage of the influence industry in Washington.

Before that he covered global affairs and healthcare policy for The Hill and worked for several newspapers in Florida. A naturalized French immigrant to the US, Julian is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism and the Political Sciences Institute (Sciences Po) in Strasbourg.