Martin Wolf
Chief economics commentator at the Financial Times.
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Financial Times (chief economics commentator)
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- Martin Wolf is a British economics journalist.
- After a decade at the World Bank he joined the Financial Times in 1987 and became its chief economics commentator in 1996.
- A long-time advocate of globalisation and free markets, he argued in the FT in 2008 and 2009 for a massive fiscal and monetary response to the financial crisis.
Key facts
- Born
- 16 August 1946, London1
- Education
- University College School; Corpus Christi College, Oxford (classics, then Philosophy, Politics and Economics); MPhil in economics, Nuffield College, Oxford (1971)1
- World Bank
- From 1971 to 1981, joining through its young professionals programme and becoming a senior economist in 19741
- Trade Policy Research Centre
- Director of Studies from 1981, in London1
- Financial Times
- Joined in 1987; associate editor in 1990; chief economics commentator in 19961
- Le Monde
- Wrote a weekly column for the French newspaper until 20161
- Independent Commission on Banking
- Member from 2010 to 20111
- Honours
- CBE (2000); Wincott Foundation senior prize (1989, 1997); Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award (2019)1
- Books
- Why Globalization Works (2004); Fixing Global Finance; The Shifts and the Shocks; The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism1
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