The
Financial Tribune editor-in-chief is
Khosro Ghadiri, the paper's Senior editor is
Amin Sabooni, formerly the editor-in-chief of
Iran Daily newspaper. Pouya Jabal Ameli is the senior economic analyst of the newspaper. Mohammad Amin Mokarrami is its current editor.
Financial Tribune licence holder is "Donyay-e Eqtesad Media Group" and its owner is
Alireza Bakhtiari who also runs the
Donya-e-Eqtesad newspaper,
Tejarat-e-Farda magazine and
Eghtesad News website. As of 2014, the
Financial Tribune main headquarters are in the central business district in Iran's capital
Tehran. The newspaper covers a host of up-and-coming sectors in
Iran's economy. In recent months its technology and new business experts have covered subjects from the first EU-Iran Forum hosted in London to new online startup businesses operating in the country. In April 2015, the newspaper became a 16-page newspaper with alternating pages between local and international automotive stories, science and technology developments, and environment-tourism articles. The creation of the new sections including automotive and technology in 2014, was in part due to senior editor
Morteza Khazeni, who was employed by the publication. Being the first English-language paper in the country to do the variable format of sections. The
Tribune has been actively covering news about Iran's re-engagement with the global economy following the lifting of the sanctions in January 2016, including Iran's airplane deals, banking relations, bilateral trade, auto deals, and international cooperation in oil, gas and renewable energies. In 2016, the paper was ranked 6th in Ministry of Culture's list of top Iranian business newspapers. From among six candidates the
Financial Tribune was selected by judges as the top website in the 'Economic News' category in the ninth edition of Iran Web Awards in 2017. In 2017,
Financial Tribune CEO Alireza Bakhtiari was awarded the Amin al-Zarb award in recognition of his journalistic endeavors in the private sector. On September 23, 2018, and following the worsening condition of country's economy, the newspaper announced that it will be published in 8 pages. As the results, art and culture, people, sports, environment and world economy pages were removed from the print version. == Causes ==