Martin Baker



Profile:
Full name: Martin Baker

Area of interest: Business (specialises in profile writing)

Journals: The Daily Telegraph, The Independent on Sunday

Email: [mailto:martin@martinfdbaker.com martin@martinfdbaker.com]

Website: MartinFDBaker.com

Blog:

Agent: martinfdbaker.com: Consultancy & training / Presentation & Speaking

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Biography:
Education: Brasenose College, Oxford: Law

Career: Solicitor at the City firm of Simmons & Simmons; LBC Radio: market reporter; The Times: City reporter; The Independent: money correspondent; The International Herald Tribune in Paris: investment editor, 1990/97; Sunday Business: associate editor; thestreet.co.uk: editor-in-chief; European Business magazine: editor; The Sunday Telegraph: Senior Features Writer,

Current position: Profile writer for The Daily Telegraph and columnist for The Independent On Sunday


 * also writes/written for: Arena magazine; The Observer; Observer Sports Monthly

Other roles: Business author and novelist

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Viewpoints/Insight:
 * The art of the profile (The Communication Group plc)
 * An interview with Martin Baker (PAN MACMILLAN PODCAST)
 * Nicola Horlick and Martin Baker: housing a jigsaw family of 10 - Fitting two families in one home is tough – even if you’re City superwoman Nicola Horlick - The Sunday Times, 4th May 2008

TV/Radio: Regular contributor to radio and TV programmes in the UK, France and Belgium

Controversy/Criticism:

Awards/Honours: Citicorp Grand Prize for Excellence

Scoops:

Other: Married to businesswoman, Nicola Horlick, see: City superwoman reveals marriage joy - Mail on Sunday, 10th September 2006



Books & Debate:

 * A Fool and His Money: How to Understand the Money Markets and Those Who Work in Them, 1995 (Orion Publishing) ISBN 1857976886

Latest work: Meltdown OCLC 173238733, 2008 (see: synopsis and a review by Nicola Horlick, Waterstone's Booksellers)

Speaking/Appearance: Regular speaker to industry groups, public relations, the general public - topics of media relations and journalism, see: Presentation & speaking

Current debate:



The Independent On Sunday: 'City Eye'
Column remit: City business and people

Section: Business

Role: Columnist

Pen-name:

Email:

Website: Business Comment

Commissioning editor:

Day published: Sunday

Regularity: Weekly

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Articles: 2008

 * It's all our fault. Just ask the Australians - 2nd March 2008
 * Our bosses must be paragons – and good with razors - 24th February 2008
 * This is no way to be running a tax system, Dave - 17th February 2008
 * Monoline fears may not just be Teutonic melancholy - 10th February 2008
 * Our deaf, dumb and blind central bankers - 3rd February 2008
 * One minute you're a star, the next you're a rogue - 27th January 2008
 * A mess of the banking industry's own making - The Sunday Telegraph, 26th January 2008
 * We talk up a crisis and then set the house ablaze - 20th January 2008
 * He talked a great game but did the City listen? (Stuart Rose) - 13th January 2008
 * And so to sleep ... in spring we'll be rudely awakened - 6th January 2008



Latest news & updates:

 * Has been commissioned by a major Hollywood producer to develop the screenplay of Meltdown. A second novel, set in gangster-capitalist Moscow, will be published in 2009. The third in the trilogy is set in Shanghai.