Saleha Mohsin

Saleha Mohsin Speaker Biography

Saleha Mohsin is the senior Washington correspondent for Bloomberg News and her debut book, Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order, comes out March 19!

Saleha has reported on economic policy from Ohio to Britain, and Norway to Washington, D.C. From her hometown of Cincinnati and then from Columbus, she reported on how the Bosnian refugees who came to the Midwest were faring after 10 years in pursuit of the American Dream, and on the manufacturing industry that keeps the Rust Belt afloat. In London, she wrote for Businessweek, and then moved to Oslo and joined Bloomberg News. There, she covered Scandinavian monetary and economic policy, and the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. Saleha’s coverage took her to dozens of tiny hamlets of Norway and into the icy Arctic Circle — but she often ended her days pulling her toddler home from daycare on a sled, just like the locals.

After almost a decade in northern Europe, she was ready to return home. Bloomberg brought her to its Washington bureau to cover the U.S. government and economy. Saleha covered the final months of the Obama Treasury Department, then the transition into the Trump presidency. Her work as a Treasury reporter encompassed Trump’s trade war, economic sanctions, parts of the Federal Reserve and Capitol Hill, and the government’s response to the worst public health crisis in nearly a century. Saleha also covered the transition into the Biden White House, including the stronger focus on economic statecraft and the ‘Buy America’ agenda that carried over from the previous administration. She also reported on the U.S. response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. She has interviewed Treasury secretaries on trains, planes, cars and in half a dozen countries.

The venture that Saleha is now most excited about is her forthcoming book about the dollar and its stewards at the Treasury Department. It’s the culmination of a decade at Bloomberg. Her interest in government currency policy began while covering the Norwegian finance ministry, and became a fascination when she moved to Washington. Paper Soldiers connects the dots between the origin of American power and economic prowess, and a global order that is now shifting after nearly 80 years —with adversaries and allies alike worrying what might happen should they find themselves on the wrong side of Washington.