Lunch With the FT: 52 Classic Interviews
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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.
Eden Collinsworth
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.
Angelina Jolie
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.
Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs
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.
Henri de Castries
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.
Saif Gaddafi; Queen Rania
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.
Prince Alwaleed
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.
Imran Khan
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 Hockney
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.
Shaw-Lan Wang; Yuko Tojo
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.
Yu Hua
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.
David Millar
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.
Angela Merkel
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.
James Watson
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.
Nouriel Roubini
M
ICHAEL 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.
Marco Pierre White
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.
General Rosso José Serrano
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.
Albert Uderzo
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.
Václav Havel
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.
Mo Ibrahim; Paul Kagame
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.
Jimmy Carter
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.
Steve Wozniak
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.
Ksenia Sobchak
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.
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
MARTIN WOLF, CBE
Martin is the Financial Times’s chief economics commentator and an associate editor. He was awarded the CBE in 2000 ‘for services to financial journalism’. He was a member of the UK government’s Independent Commission on Banking in 2010–11. Martin’s most recent publications are Why Globalization Works and Fixing Global Finance.
Paul Krugman
Acknowledgements
A number of colleagues helped to turn a good idea into a real book. I would like to thank Caroline Daniel, editor of the FT Weekend, Life & Arts editor Lucy Tuck and her deputy Neil O’Sullivan, not to mention all their predecessors who have commissioned and edited more than 800 lunches since the series was launched on 23 April 1994. Bhavna Patel and Peter Cheek, the FT’s ever patient librarians, helped to retrieve full versions of the older articles. Sally Gainsbury, Richard Pigden, Christina Brown and Hannah Bishop tracked down contributors who had long lost touch with the FT. Cristina Vere-Nicoll and Alexandra Boulton provided important background research, under the guidance of Leyla Boulton. Emma Gilpin-Jacobs and her communications team worked hard to make the book one of the highlights of the Financial Times’s 125th anniversary celebrations. I am grateful to all for their support on a project even more rewarding than a five-course lunch.
Lionel Barber
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Articles by Rob Blackhurst, Kieran Cooke, Andrew Davidson, Beverley Doole,
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