Jo Johnson



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Full name: Jo Johnson is currently the editor of the Lex column

Area of interest: Business and Finance

Journals: Financial Times

Email: [mailto:jo.johnson@ft.com jo.johnson@ft.com]

Website: FT.com / Jo Johnson

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Biography:
Education: Balliol College, Oxford: Modern History (First Class Hon.); INSEAD: MBA

Career: Deutsche Bank: corporate financier in the investment banking division; joined the Financial Times in 1997: Lex column reporter; South Asia bureau chief (New Delhi), led a team of FT journalists covering India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives, also wrote for the online column Engaging India 2005/2008

Current position/role: Lex column editor, 2008-


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Latest work: The man who tried to buy the world OCLC 51655456, 2003

(about French businessman Jean-Marie Messier who was Chairman and Chief Executive of multinational media conglomerate Vivendi SA (formerly Vivendi Universal) - co-author Martine Orange)

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Email: [mailto:jo.johnson@ft.com jo.johnson@ft.com]

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Articles:

 * FT.Com / Lex

As South Asia bureau chief...
 * How fractured politics harm India’s finances - Sharp stock market falls since the budget show investors are punishing poor policymaking by a weak coalition government - 5th March 2008
 * Delhi’s tentative step into the 21st century - India‘s new expressway between New Delhi and its airport gives hope that the country’s infrastructure will not always be dysfunctional - 30th January 2008
 * Lunch with the FT: Viswanathan Anand - Considered a hero in India, the reigning world chess champion is surprised by how good his 37th year has been - 18th January 2008
 * Democracy for Pakistan should not be delayed - The biggest risk to the credibility of the poll comes from the president’s likely efforts to rig the result - 3rd January 2008

