Jonathan Ford
Chief leader writer, Financial Times
Jonathan Ford has been chief leader writer at the Financial Times since January 2010. He joined from Reuters where he was commentary editor and set up the company' s first team covering financial comment. Before that, he worked for eight years at the financial commentary service Breakingviews, of which he was a co-founder. Jonathan started his career in investment banking, working for Morgan Grenfell as a corporate financier. After moving into journalism, he worked as a financial reporter for the Evening Standard and then at the FT, where he wrote for the Lex column.