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Martin Wolf
Financial Times
Martin Wolf is an extremely effective speaker on global economics, with unparalleled experience as both an economist and a journalist. He is Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London, writing a weekly column on the world economy and a fortnightly column on the UK. He is a Forum Fellow at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he has served as a panel moderator. Martin was a senior economist for 10 years at the World Bank’s division of international trade. He was Director of Studies at the Trade Policy Research Centre, London, and has advised governments and international organisations on trade and economic integration.
Martin is the author of several books and numerous articles on global economics and political economy, including Why Globalization Works. His latest book, Fixing Global Finance: How to Curb Financial Crises in the 21st Century, describes how the current financial crisis developed (and those that have preceded it), and what we can do to help ensure global financial stability in the future. Martin has won several prestigious awards for his journalism, including the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 "for services to financial journalism" and the Decade of Excellence Award at the 2003 Business Journalists of the Year Awards.
In recent months, he has emerged as one of the clearest and most objective voices to comment on the turbulent economic landscape.
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