Martin Wolf is Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 for services to financial journalism. He was a member of the UK government鈥檚 Independent Commission on Banking between June 2010 and September 2011.
Mr Wolf has honorary doctorates from the London School of Economics, Nottingham University, Warwick University and Kingston University, in the UK, Macquarie University, in Australia and KU Leuven, in Belgium. He is an honorary fellow of Corpus Christ College and Nuffield College, Oxford University, and of King鈥檚 College, London.
Mr Wolf was joint winner of the Wincott Foundation senior prize for excellence in financial journalism for 1989 and 1997. He won the 鈥淎ccenture Decade of Excellence鈥� at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards of 2003, 鈥淐ommentator of the Year鈥� award at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards of 2008, the Ludwig Erhard Prize for economic commentary for 2009 and 鈥淐ommentariat of the Year 2009鈥� at the Comment Awards, sponsored by Editorial Intelligence. He was placed in Foreign Policy鈥檚 list of the 鈥淭op 100 Global Thinkers鈥� in 2009, 2010 and 2011. He was joint winner of the 2009 award for columns in 鈥済iant newspapers鈥� at the 15th annual Best in Business Journalism competition of The Society of American Business Editors and Writers. He won the 33rd Ischia International Journalism Prize in 2012, the Overseas Press Club of America鈥檚 prize for 鈥渂est commentary on international news in any medium鈥� for 2013 and the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Gerald Loeb Awards.
His most recent publication is The Shifts and The Shocks: What we鈥檝e learned 鈥� and have still to learn 鈥� from the financial crisis (London and New York: Allen Lane, 2014).
