A man we should read more about

Martin Wolf (born 1946) is a British journalist. He is associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000.

Wolf is son of an Austrian Jewish father who escaped to England before World War II and a Dutch Jewish mother who lost near thirty immediate family in the Holocaust.^[2] He left Nuffield College, Oxford University with a master of philosophy degree in economics in 1971 to join the World Bank's young professionals programme, becoming a senior economist in 1974. He left the World Bank in 1981, to become Director of Studies at the Trade Policy Research Centre, in London. He joined the Financial Times in 1987; he has been associate editor since 1990 and chief economics commentator since 1996.

He was joint winner of the Wincott Foundation senior prize for excellence in financial journalism in both 1989 and 1997. He won the RTZ David Watt memorial prize in 1994. He is visiting fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, a Special Professor at the University of Nottinghamand an honorary fellow of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy.

He has been a forum fellow at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos since 1999. He was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, by the University of Nottingham in 2006, and was made Doctor of Science (Economics) ofUniversity of London, honoris causa, by the London School of Economics in the same year. He is a regular participant in the annualBilderberg meetings of politicians and bankers.

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Paul Ng