Lionel Barber

Lionel Barber
Barber in 2011
Occupation	Editor
Notable credit(s)	Editor of The Financial Times
Children	1 daughter, 1 son[1]

Lionel Barber is an English journalist.

Barber was appointed Editor of the Financial Times (FT) on 1 January 2006. Previously, he was the Financial Times' U.S. Managing Editor and before that, Editor of the FT's Continental European edition (2000–2002), during which he briefed US President George W. Bush ahead of his first trip to Europe. Other positions at the FT include News Editor (1998–2000), Brussels Bureau Chief (1992–1998), and both Washington Correspondent and US Editor (1986–1992).

Education

Barber was educated at Dulwich College, an independent school for boys in Dulwich in South London and at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating with a joint honours degree in German and Modern History.

Life and career

Barber began his career in journalism in 1978 as a reporter for The Scotsman. In 1981, after being named Young Journalist of the Year in the British press awards, he moved to the Sunday Times, where he was a business correspondent.^[2] He has co-written several books, including a history of Reuters news agency (The Price of Truth, 1985) and the Westland political scandal (Not with Honour, 1986). In 1985, he was the Laurence Stern fellow at the Washington Post. In 1992, he was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, working under Nelson Polsby at the Institute of Governmental Studies. In 1996, he was a visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman centre at the European University Institute in Florence. On 1 January 2006, he was appointed editor of the Financial Times.^[3]

References

External links

• Media related to Lionel Barber at Wikimedia Commons
• Profile at The Financial Times
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Works by or about Lionel Barber in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Lionel Barber collected news and commentary at The Guardian
• "Can and Should the Eurozone Survive?" Public lecture at LSE, 7 November 2013