Martin Wolf
“The pandemic is creating enormous economic and political turmoil. Unless there is an early cure, the world that will emerge seems likely to be different, in important ways, and even less co-operative and effective than the one that went into it. Yet this need not be the case. We have choices. We can always make the right ones.”
Martin Wolf
“The pandemic is creating enormous economic and political turmoil. Unless there is an early cure, the world that will emerge seems likely to be different, in important ways, and even less co-operative and effective than the one that went into it. Yet this need not be the case. We have choices. We can always make the right ones.”
Martin Wolf is an editor, author, economist and award-winning journalist based in London. He currently serves as associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times of London.
Born in England to European parents who fled the Holocaust, Wolf earned a master’s of philosophy in economics at Oxford and joined the World Bank after graduating. He has been a Forum Fellow at the World Economic Forum in Davos since 1999 and has advised governments and international organizations on trade and economic integration.
As a journalist, Wolf has covered a wide range of economically relevant topics, including global monetary policies, the rise of populism, the political economy of Brexit and economics of climate change. He was awarded the Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2000 for his services to financial journalism and Italy’s most prestigious media award, the International Ischia Journalism Prize, in 2012.
Wolf’s highly regarded books on globalization include Why Globalization Works, Fixing Global Finance, which won the China Business News book of the year award for 2009, and The Shifts and the Shocks: What We’ve Learned—and Still Have to Learn—from the Financial Crisis.