Martin Wolf

Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times International Organizations and Other Institutions

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’s Independent Commission on Bank between June 10 and September 2011.

Mr Wolf has honorary doctorates from Nottingham University (2006), the London School of Economics (2006), Warwick University (2009), Kingston University (2010), Macquarie University (2012) and KU Leuven (2018) He is an honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Nuffield College, Oxford, and King’s College, London. He is a University Global Fellow at Columbia University, New York.

Mr Wolf was joint winner of the Wincott Foundation senior price for excellence in financial journalism for 1989 and 1977. He won the “Accenture Decade of Excellence” at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards of 2003. He won the “Commentator of the Year” award at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards of 2008. He won the Ludwig Erhard Prize for economic commentary for 2009. He won “Commentariat of the Year 2009” at the Comment Awards, sponsored by Editorial Intelligence. He was placed in Foreign Policy’s list of the “Top 100 Global thinkers” in 2009, 2010 and 2011. He was joint winner of the 2009 award for columns in “giant newspapers” 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. He won the Overseas Press Club of America’s prize for “best commentary on international news in any medium” for 2013.