Financial Times

Michael Oxley is a sales director for Ignites Europe, based at the Financial Times in London. Previously Michael has worked at the Times Educational Supplement, the Trader Media Group & Reed Elsevier working on advertising campaigns with direct clients and media agencies. Michael graduated with honours at the University of Gloucestershire where he studied Sports Science.

Peter Oxner is the volunteer coordinator for Men's Ministry at Naperville Presbyterian Church. His efforts in the community of men within our congregation reflect the mission of NPC: "to infect all people with a joy in God's glory and passion to become like Him". By investing in lay leadership, Peter coordinates what is already happening in the church. He desires to help connect men to gospel-centered ministry opportunities and life-giving relationships. Peter is the Midwest Sales Director for the Financial Times and works in Chicago. A graduate of San Jose State University and an alumnus of Northwestern University and Moody Bible Institute, Peter enjoys all outdoor family activities, sports (especially soccer) and is a history buff. Peter joined NPC in 1997 with his wife Erin after moving to Naperville in 1995. Peter & Erin have 4 children - Gabriel (10), Grace (8), Harrison (6) and Shea (3).

Adrian is the Milan correspondent for the Financial Times. While in Milan Adrian has covered the continuing Parmalat scandal, the attempted turnaround at Fiat, and will be covering the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. Before covering Milan, Adrian was a New York correspondent for the Financial Times, where he covered a series of corporate scandals including the downfall of Enron.

Brian Lapping is a programme-maker and historian, who started his career working as a journalist on The Guardian and The Financial Times. Brian's books include 'The Labour Government 1964-70', 'End of Empire' and 'Apartheid - A History'. His television factual dramas include 'Breakthrough at Reykyavik' and 'Countdown to War'...

David Cameron has personally endorsed the corporate responsibility practices of several blue chip companies that happen to be former clients of his most influential political adviser, the Financial Times has learnt. Clan at war over man who would be chief (The Scotsman) THEY were once one of the fiercest clans in Scotland - proud Highland warriors who were the first to rally to the support of Prince Charles Edward Stuart when he raised his standard at Glenfinnan in 1745.

Francis Hodgson is a photography critic for the Financial Times, and the former Head of Photographs at Sotheby's, London. A specialist in photography of many years? standing, Hodgson is unusual in having worked at a senior level both in the cultural and in the commercial aspects of photography. Hodgson was for some years the manager of the print room at the Photographers? Gallery in London. He later founded and directed Zwemmer Fine Photographs, a gallery specialised in photography, and has worked with several other galleries. Hodgson was also director of photography at Photonica, a major stock image library, where he was responsible for opening up the stock photography market to more artistic photography than had been considered possible. He was also at one time director of content at Eyestorm, the online art dealership. He has acted as representative and agent to photographers, and has been a writer and broadcaster on photography for many years. In another life, Hodgson authored "Only the Goalkeeper to Beat" (Macmillan 1998) a highly praised study of the role of the goalkeeper in soccer.

John Plender has been a senior editorial writer and columnist at the Financial Times since 1981, an assignment he combined until recently with current affairs broadcasting for the BBC and Channel Four. He has a weekly column on economics and business on Mondays and also writes for the opinion pages.

John Quelch, the Harvard Business School marketing professor, has an interesting post on his blog about companies that defy conventional wisdom by dominating the mid-market, instead of focusing solely on the high or low ends. Professor Quelch cites the examples of Tesco, Toyota and Charles Schwab as companies that have adopted this strategy. As he notes, Tesco and Toyota have gone into premium segments after securing the mid-market first.

A very big spirit in a little body, Lara is a bridge in every sense - between spiritual and physical realities, between consciousness paradigms, between eastern and western cultures, between her fellow humans and between various aspects of SELF. She is dedicated to bridging together all races, genders, cultures, beliefs, practices, perspectives, souls and their journeys...that make up the grand tapestry of life. In truth, Lara never went out searching for anything, instead it all found her, as her life unfolded (and continues to unfold) in a most unexpected manner. Years ago, following a near-death experience in the Peruvian Andes, Lara was chosen to be initiated into a closely guarded Incan tradition of energy medicine. This was the open door which then allowed Lara to spontaneously re-connect with the 12 Divine Laws of Healing that were already deep within her (see her book, The Freedom of Innocence 2005). From being an International Business Analyst and Journalist, who has been associated with Business Week Magazine and The Financial Times, Lara found herself on a very different, far more humble journey...one of serving humanity with her gift of healing. Coming full circle, Lara integrated everything she was with everything she is, pooling together experience and expertise from 2 very different realms. Today, Lara's specialty is igniting creative potential within individuals and organisations. Lara maintains a global presence spanning 6 continents. She has clients and students in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, India, Australia, New Zealand, U.K., Spain, France, Norway, United States, Canada, Peru, Costa Rica, Turkey, Egypt and Morocco. She resides on the sacred island of Kaua'i, in Hawai'i.

Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University. Mr. Summers has served as political economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers, chief economist of the World Bank, and secretary of the treasury of the United States.

In a commentary on Business on the BBC World Service in January 2008, Lucy Kellaway, a columnist for the Financial Times, recounted her experiences spending a day with Korn Ferry pretending to be a headhunter. "I raced around London in taxis, sat in on interviews and drew up lists. When it was time to go home, I asked the woman I had been shadowing if she would give me a job. No, she replied after an indecently short pause. The main problem with me, she said, was that I said what I thought." Acknowledging that Finding the right person for the right job is more important than most things, and anyone who can do it deserves not only a place in heaven (or similar) but also the thwacking great fee they extract for their efforts", Kellaway went on to describe how one large executive search firm provides their clients, amongst other things, with a "Leadership Advantage Toolkit " to assist them to define the kind of person they are seeking. "Included were 66 characteristics that might be desirable in a leader, including "dealing with paradox" and "organisational agility" to be rated according to "mission critical", "important" and so on.

Margaret McCartney is a GP in Glasgow. Her column, Second Opinion, appears in the FT Weekend Magazine. She blogs on the latest medical issues at blogs.ft.com/mccartney

Mark Mulligan is a correspondent for the Financial Times based in Madrid. Mark has been a Madrid correspondent since 2004, prior to which he was a correspondent for the Financial Times in Chile, Peru and Bolivia. Mark earned a BA in Journalism from the University of Queensland in Australia, speaks English and Spanish fluently and has a working knowledge of Italian.

Matt Fottrell is publisher for Ignites Europe and head of data publishing for the Financial Times. Matt has been with the FT Group for the last nine years working within digital and print advertising, conferences and awards in the European retail financial sector.

Array

Pratap Chatterjee (b. Birmingham, United Kingdom) is an Indian/Sri Lankan investigative journalist and progressive author. He is a British citizen and was raised in India, although he now lives in California. He serves as the executive director of CorpWatch, an Oakland-based anti-globalization and corporate accountability organization. He is also a producer and radio host at KPFA. He has been published in a number of popular media, including the Financial Times, The New Republic, The Guardian, and The Independent. He often appears as a guest expert in a wide variety of media ranging from Fox TV to Democracy Now! His writing has won a number of awards, from the National Newspaper Association and Project Censored, among others.

Andrew Hill has been City Editor of the Financial Times and editor of the daily Lombard column on British business and finance since September 2006. He has been an Assistant Editor of the FT since August 2003. Andrew was Financial Editor from June 2005, with overall responsibility for coverage of companies and markets. Prior to becoming Financial Editor, Andrew was the FT's Comment & Analysis Editor, with responsibility for the paper's opinion and features pages. From 1999 to 2003, he was the FT's New York Bureau Chief. He joined the FT in 1988 and has also worked as foreign news editor, UK companies reporter and correspondent in Brussels and Milan.

Mr Bogler's career in journalism started in London and has taken him to Frankfurt, Hong Kong and New York, and now back to London where he is lives and works as Executive Editor of the Financial Times. His reputation was earned from 16 years as a top financial journalist. Daniel has written for various columns at the Financial Times including Global Investor, FTDeutschland's German Business, and Asian economics and finance. For six years he published under Lex, the Financial Time's agenda-setting column on business and financial topics, covering everything from individual companies, their strategies and their management to global macro-economic matters. A commentator on global businesses and generally covering all industries, his particular experience has been following and analysing the banking and finance sectors. He has been especially focused on company strategies and financial performance. This, coupled with his strong understanding of macroeconomic developments, enables him to identify and anticipate key impacts for businesses operating globally.

Guy de Jonquieres is World Trade Editor of the Financial Times. A long-standing member of the Financial Times? news team, he was the paper?s Business Editor 1994-1998, and between 1986 and 1994 he edited the paper?s international business and consumer industries coverage. Based in London, he travels regularly.

John Willman is an Editorial Consultant based in London and a former Associate Editor of the Financial Times. In an 18-year career with the FT, he held a series of senior roles, including Chief Leader-Writer, Banking Editor, Consumer Industries Editor and latterly UK Business Editor. He has also won many journalism awards, including Financial Journalist of the Year at the 2001 British Press Awards and the banking award in the Business Journalist of the Year 2002 awards. Since stepping down from the FT in March 2009, he has been working on a variety of editorial projects for government departments and large companies, and is a Senior Research Fellow at Policy Exchange, a free-market think-tank. After leaving Cambridge University in 1971 with a first-class degree in Social and Political Sciences and taught economics. In 1976, he entered journalism as a financial writer for the consumer magazine Which?, later becoming publications manager for the London office of Peat Marwick, the accountancy firm (now KPMG). Between 1985 and 1990, he was General Secretary of the Fabian Society, the left-of-centre think-tank associated with the Labour Party. Willman has written or contributed to several books, including A Better State of Health (Profile Books, 1998), the annual Lloyds TSB Tax Guide (with Sara Williams, 1985-2000), the Which? Guide to Planning and Conservation (Consumers' Association, 1990)and The Major Effect (Macmillan, 1994). John Willman is widely recognised as the foremost and most trusted interpreter from the margins of where politics, policy and business meet. He has written and contributed to several books, including the annual Lloyds TSB Tax Guide, The Which? Guide to Planning and Conservation, The Major Effect and A Better State of Health. He has extensive broadcast experience and has appeared frequently on BBC TV and radio, Sky News and CNN. He has interviewed many senior political leaders including Gordon Brown.

Michael Skapinker is an assistant editor of the Financial Times, a columnist and the editor of the FT's special reports. He was born in South Africa in 1955 and was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and Queens' College, Cambridge. He began his journalistic career in Greece, where he worked as a correspondent for CBS Radio News and Independent Radio News. He joined the FT in London in 1986 and has reported on many industries, including aerospace, electronics and tourism. From 2000 to 2005, he was the FT's Management Editor and wrote a weekly management column, for which he received the Work Foundation's Members' Award for his contribution to the understanding of working life. From 2005 to 2007, he was the weekend editor. He was a consultant on the BBC series The Secrets of Leadership, which was broadcast in 2003, and has addressed audiences on business topics in the US, Japan and Europe.

Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Dr. Ferguson has published many bestsellers including: Paper and Iron: Hamburg Business and German Politics in the Era of Inflation 1897-1927 (Cambridge University Press, 1995), The Pity of War: Explaining World War One (Basic Books) and The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild (Penguin), The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 (Basic), Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power (Basic), Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (Penguin, 2004), and The War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West (2006). He is a regular contributor to television and radio, and reviews regularly for the British and American press. He is a contributing editor for the Financial Times. In 2004 Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people. He has been a member of the Museum of American Finance's Board of Trustees since 2006.

Philip Stephens is associate editor of the Financial Times and a senior commentator. His column appears on Tuesdays and Fridays. He joined the newspaper in 1983 and has been the FT's economics editor, political editor and editor of the UK edition. He is a well-known author, commentator and broadcaster. Before joining the FT he was a correspondent for Reuters in London and Brussels. He is the author of Politics and the Pound (MacMillan), a study of the British government's exchange rate management and its relations with Europe since 1979, and of Tony Blair (Viking/Politico's), a biography of the British prime minister. He was educated at Wimbledon College and at Oxford University, where he took an honours degree in modern history. He is a Fulbright Fellow and winner of the 2002 David Watt Prize for outstanding political journalism.

Wolfgang is a co-founder and president of Eurointelligence ASBL. He is also an associate editor of the Financial Times, where he writes a weekly column about European economics. He was one of the founders of Financial Times Deutschland, the Germany financial daily, and the paper's editor-in-chief between 2001 and 2003. Prior to this, he held several posts at a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times and the Times of London.

David Arculus became a non-executive director in February 2006 and currently serves on the audit and nomination committees and as chairman of the personnel committee. He is a non-executive director of Telefonica SA, and was previously chairman of O2 plc from 2004 until it was acquired by Telefonica at the beginning of 2006. His previous roles include chairman of Severn Trent plc and IPC Group, chief operating officer of United Business Media plc and group managing director of EMAP plc. David Bell became a director in March 1996. He was appointed Pearson s director for people with responsibility for finding, keeping, rewarding and inspiring our employees across the Pearson Group. He is chairman of the Financial Times and Sadler s Wells Theatre. He is also chairman of Crisis, a charity for the homeless, Roehampton University, The Institute for War and Peace Reporting and the London Transport Museum.