Oliver Carroll is a staff correspondent for The Economist, previously Moscow correspondent for The Independent, and a contributor to Newsweek, Politico, the Times of London, Die Zeit, Foreign Policy, the Daily Beast, BBC, Sky and others.

Hailing from Birkenhead, a shipbuilding town near Liverpool, Oliver has spent most of the last two decades focussed on Russia, Ukraine, and the post-Soviet space. He first moved to Moscow in 2004, soon after graduating from Cambridge University with a BA in Modern Language studies. There, he became a founding editor of the Russian version of Esquire, before later returning to the UK to complete a second degree in Politics and Security at UCL, London.

In February 2014, Oliver relocated to Ukraine, then in the midst of revolution. In the decade since he has produced in-depth, breaking coverage of the country's enveloping political and military crisis, reporting from both sides of the front-lines.

From 2015-2017, Oliver was Managing Editor of the Moscow Times.