Lunch With the FT: 52 Classic Interviews (42 page)
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Authors: Lionel Barber
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Born in Birmingham of Irish stock, James had a stint driving trucks because that’s what Elvis did. But he always drew, eventually being drawn to the
Financial Times
in the late 1980s, remaining there as cartoonist for features and the
Weekend
section, with occasional forays into the pages of
Euromoney
, the
New
Yorker
and the
Leicester Mercury
.
JONATHAN FORD
Jonathan is chief leader writer at the
Financial Times
, having previously written for the Lex column. Before that, he worked for eight years at the financial commentary service Breakingviews, of which he was a co-founder. Jonathan started his career in investment banking but moved into journalism as a financial reporter for the
Evening Standard
.
VANESSA FRIEDMAN
Vanessa has been fashion editor of the
Financial Times
since 2003. She writes a weekly column on style and a daily blog, and is the editorial coordinator of the
FT
’s annual Business of Luxury conference. Before joining the
FT
she was the features director for the launch of UK
InStyle
. She is the author of
Emilio Pucci
and is on the advisory council of Princeton University’s history department.
Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana
;
Tamara Mellon
MATTHEW GARRAHAN
Matthew is the Los Angeles correspondent for the
Financial Times.
He has worked for the
FT
for nine years, previously covering the leisure industries beat and working as sports business correspondent. He was awarded the LA Press Club’s Entertainment News Award in 2008 for his story on Hollywood and the credit crunch.
JAMES HARDING
James joined the
Financial Times
in 1994 as a graduate trainee. He worked in Westminster, opened the paper’s bureau in Shanghai in 1996, returned to London as media editor, then went to Washington as bureau chief from 2002 to 2005. He joined
The Times
as business editor in 2006 and was appointed the paper’s editor in 2007.
ADAM JONES
Adam has been accountancy correspondent for the
Financial Times
since 2010. Previously he was the
FT
’s online business education editor and then senior companies reporter. He also worked as a correspondent in Paris and
a consumer industries correspondent in London. He joined the
FT
in 2001 from
The Times
, where he had been US business correspondent, based in New York.
LUCY KELLAWAY
Lucy is the
Financial Times
’s management columnist and agony aunt and an associate editor. In her more than 20 years at the
FT
, she has been energy correspondent, Brussels correspondent, a Lex writer, and an interviewer of business people and celebrities for the Lunch with the
FT
series. Lucy was also the creator of the infamous Martin Lukes.
Zaha Hadid
;
Twiggy
;
Lord Lawson
;
Jacques Attali
ROULA KHALAF
Roula is the
Financial Times
’s Middle East editor and an associate editor with additional responsibility for the
FT
’s Middle East edition. She joined the
FT
in 1995 as North Africa correspondent and was previously a staff writer for
Forbes
magazine in New York. Her specialist areas are Iraq, the Gulf, North Africa and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
SIMON KUPER
Simon has been working for the
Financial Times
since 1994, and now writes a general column for the newspaper. He is British but lives with his wife and three children in Paris. He is the author of several books. including
Football against the Enemy
and
Ajax, the Dutch, the War: Football in Europe during the Second World War
. He was co-author with Stefan Szymanski of
Soccernomics
.
EDWARD LUCE
Edward is the Washington columnist and commentator for the
Financial Times.
He writes a weekly column,
FT
editorials on American politics and the economy, and other articles. He has worked for the
FT
since 1995 as Philippines correspondent, capital markets editor, South Asia bureau chief in New Delhi and Washington bureau chief. He is the author of
In Spite of
the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India and Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent
.
CHRISTOPHER PARKES
Chris joined the
Financial Times
in April 1977 with a first job as deputy commodities editor. A long line of posts ranging from consumer industries editor to Germany correspondent ended with a decade as the Los Angeles correspondent. Since retiring in 2006, Chris has lived with his artist wife Marta in the Mojave Desert, California. He is now writing – and printing and binding – his memoirs,
Drinking Coors
.
DAVID PILLING
David is the Asia editor of the
Financial Times
. He was previously Tokyo bureau chief from 2002 to 2008. He has also worked in London as an editor, in Chile and Argentina as a correspondent, and has covered the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry.
GIDEON RACHMAN
Gideon was appointed chief foreign affairs columnist and an associate editor of the
Financial Times
in July 2006. He joined the
FT
after a 15-year career at the
Economist
, where he held several senior positions including deputy US editor, Asia editor, Britain editor and business editor.
Oleg Deripaska
;
Donald Rumsfeld
JOHN RIDDING
John has been chief executive of the
Financial Times
since June 2006, having been with the company for more than 20 years in both editorial and executive positions. Previously, John was the editor and publisher of the Asia edition of the
FT
, as well as chairman of Pearson in Asia. After launching the Asia edition in 2003, he led it to a series of commercial and editorial successes.
TOM ROBBINS
Tom began his career as an investigative reporter at the
Sunday Times
, specializing in crime, home affairs and consumer affairs (1998–2003). He went on to edit the paper’s newly launched motoring section (2003–5), before moving to the
Observer
, where he was deputy travel editor, then travel editor. He was appointed
FT
travel editor in June 2010. He is a keen cyclist and skier and in 2008 published
White Weekends
, a book on winter sports.
ALEC RUSSELL
Alec is the
Financial Times
’s news editor, following his stints as comment and analysis editor, world news editor and Johannesburg bureau chief. Before joining the
FT
, Alec was the
Daily Telegraph
’s Washington bureau chief (2003–6). He was an assistant editor at the
Telegraph
and, as foreign editor, oversaw its coverage of the 9/11 attacks and the war in Iraq.
After Mandela: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa
is the latest of his three books.
F. W. de Klerk
;
Morgan Tsvangirai
AMITY SHLAES
Amity was a
Financial Times
columnist from 2000 to 2005. Nowadays, she directs the economic growth programme at the George W. Bush Presidential Center and is a syndicated columnist for Bloomberg. Her 2007 history of the Great Depression,
The Forgotten Man
, was a
New York Times
bestseller for 20 weeks and she is the author of
Coolidge
, a biography of Calvin Coolidge, the 30th US president.
NIGEL SPIVEY
Nigel freelanced for the
Weekend FT
from 1988 to 2000, while a research fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is the author of several books on Greek and Etruscan art, and lately
The Ancient Olympics
. In 2005 he presented the five-part BBC/PBS television series
How Art Made the World
. He is now senior lecturer in classical art and archaeology at the University of Cambridge.
Gavin Ewart
;
Lord Hanson
;
Jennifer Paterson
CHRISTOPHER SWANN
Chris is a columnist for Reuters Breakingviews, based in New York, and previously worked for Bloomberg News. Before this, he was an economics correspondent for the
Financial Times
in London and then Washington DC. After joining the
FT
in 1998, Chris worked as a world stock-market reporter, foreign news editor and companies reporter.
GILLIAN TETT
An assistant editor and columnist at the
Financial Times
, Gillian served as the US managing editor until 2012. Before that, she was responsible for the
FT
’s markets coverage, and served as Tokyo bureau chief and deputy Lex editor. She was named Journalist of the Year (2009) and Business Journalist of the Year (2008) at the British Press Awards. Her book
Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe
was a
New York Times
bestseller.
MICHAEL THOMPSON-NOEL
Michael worked for the
Financial Times
from 1969 to 1999. He inaugurated Lunch with the
FT
,
and his distinguished career at the newspaper included the roles of features editor, Sydney correspondent, travel editor and deputy editor of the
Weekend FT
. Since his retirement, he has tried creative writing (a novel and a screenplay), with no success.
ADAM THOMSON
Adam joined the
Financial Times
in 1997 as Bogotá correspondent, then worked as assistant features editor in London, Buenos Aires correspondent, and bureau chief in Mexico City. Before that, he taught English, played chess, worked as a part-time DJ and took photographs. He fell into print journalism by accident: he was asked to cover for a friend with the express promise that the publication in question would not need any copy. Two days after the friend’s departure on holiday, the publication called, demanding copy.
JOHN THORNHILL
John is the deputy editor at the
Financial Times.
He was appointed the
FT
news editor in 2009. Prior to this he worked in Paris as the editor of the European edition, both in print and online. He joined in 1988 as a graduate trainee, and his roles have included Paris bureau chief, world news editor, Asia editor, Moscow bureau chief and Lex columnist.
STEFAN WAGSTYL
Stefan is the emerging markets editor at the
FT
and edits the beyondbrics blog on
FT.com
. Before that, he was East Europe editor. He joined the
FT
in 1983 and his other roles have included Tokyo bureau chief, New Delhi bureau chief and industrial editor.
WILLIAM WALLIS
William is the
FT
’s Africa editor and has travelled and worked in more than 35 countries in Africa and the Middle East. He joined the
Financial Times
in 1998 as West Africa correspondent based in Lagos, and went on to become the
FT
’s Central and East Africa correspondent in Nairobi, acting subsequently as the newspaper’s Middle East correspondent in Cairo.
ANDREW WARD
Andrew has been UK news editor at the
Financial Times
since November 2011. Previously, he was the White House correspondent and subsequently the Nordic bureau chief. His US beat included the Bush administration and the 2008 presidential election campaign. Ward joined the
FT
in 1999 as a graduate trainee and was appointed media correspondent in 2000.
RICHARD WATERS
Richard is the West Coast managing editor for the
Financial Times
, and writes about telecommunications and technology. He was based in New York for nine years, where he was the Wall Street reporter and NY bureau chief. Richard previously worked in London, holding a number of posts
including international capital markets editor, securities industry correspondent, and accountancy and taxation correspondent.
COURTNEY WEAVER
Courtney has been a correspondent for the
Financial Times
in Moscow since 2011. She joined the
FT
as a graduate trainee in 2009 after studying Russian literature at Stanford University and covering the 2008–9 financial crisis in Russia for the
Moscow Times
. In London, she has worked on the
FT
’s companies and markets desks.
JONATHAN WHEATLEY
Jonathan is the
Financial Times
’s deputy emerging markets editor. He was Brazil correspondent from 2005 to 2011, when he moved to London. He lived in São Paulo from 1992, writing for the
FT, Business Week
, the Economist Intelligence Unit and many others. He previously worked in television news, current affairs and documentaries in London.