Caroline Daniel
Caroline Daniel is a British journalist, political commentator and editor of FT Weekend. She was appointed in June 2010 after having spent three years running the Financial Times comment and analysis pages during the financial crisis. In March 2014 she was made consulting editor of FT Live. She is also an FT assistant editor.
Education
Ms Daniel was educated at St. Helen's School in London and at Cambridge University, where she studied History.
Career
Between 2005 and 2007 she was the FT’s White House correspondent, based in Washington D. C., during which time she was a regular panellist on The McLaughlin Group and on NPR’s Diane Rehm show.
Before moving to Chicago in May 2002, where she led FT's coverage of the US airline industry and Boeing, Ms Daniel was based in London as IT correspondent covering the IT boom and bust.
Ms Daniel joined the FT in 1999. Before that she was a writer for New Statesman and The Economist, and as a researcher for Gordon Brown, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer. She was research editor for the book "Values, Visions and Voices" by Gordon Brown and Tony Wright and has had essays published by the IPPR and Demos.
Recognition and achievements
In 1998 Ms Daniel won the prestigious Laurence Stern fellowship to The Washington Post. She is a member of the prestigious Trilateral Commission, Trustee of the Institute for Public Policy Research and has a Financial Times Non-Executive Director Diploma.