Joris Luyendijk is a journalist, author and anthropologist running The Guardian's banking blog. He worked as a correspondent in the Middle East for Dutch Volkskrant, Radio 1, NRC Handelsblad and NOS from 1998 to 2003. In 2003 Luyendijk returned to the Netherlands, before joining The Guardian in 2011. He has written or cooperated on five books, about Islam, the news business and Dutch politics.