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Lionel Barber is the editor of the Financial Times, appointed in November 2005. Previously, he was the newspaper’s US managing editor, based in New York, responsible for the US edition and all US news on FT.com, and prior to that, editor of the continental European edition.
In 2001, Barber was invited to brief George W. Bush on European affairs ahead of the president’s inaugural mission to Europe. In the same year, European Voice named him one of the 50 most influential personalities in Europe.
He has written several books and has lectured widely on US foreign policy, transatlantic relations, European security and monetary union in the US and Europe. He appears regularly on national and international TV and radio.
Barber graduated in 1978 from St Edmund Hall, Oxford University with a joint honours degree in German and modern history and speaks fluent French and German. Previously, he attended high school at Dulwich College in London.
During his career, Barber has received several distinguished awards. In 1981, he was named Young Journalist of the Year in the British press awards. In 1985, he was the Laurence Stern fellow at the Washington Post. In 1991, he was a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellow and lectured at Davidson College. In 1992, he was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1994, he was awarded the Eliot-Winant fellowship and lectured at Harvard, George Washington, the University of Maryland, University of Pittsburgh and Stanford. In 1996, he was a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. In 1998, he was short-listed as Foreign Correspondent of the Year in the British press awards. In 1998, he was named one of the 101 most influential Europeans by Le Nouvel Observateur.
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