[1] Thal Larsen graduated from Bristol University before going on to the London School of Economics.
[1] He began working for the Financial Times in 1999 and moved to the paper's New York City office the following year, first as a financial correspondent and then U.S. communications editor.
[2] In 2009, he departed to become Reuters' European comment editor, reporting to Jonathan Ford.
In 2012, he moved to Hong Kong to take up a new position within Reuters as the Asia editor for Breakingviews.
[3] Thal Larsen was one of a number of senior financial journalists who reported on the effects of the financial crisis on The Royal Bank of Scotland, and was interviewed by Ian Fraser for a 2011 BBC Two documentary on the topic.