Philip Stephens (journalist)

Philip Stephens is associate editor, chief political commentator, and director of the editorial board of the Financial Times.

He was educated at Wimbledon College and at Oxford University, where he took an honours degree in modern history.

He joined Reuters as a correspondent in London and Brussels before moving to the Financial Times newspaper in 1983.

[1] He is vice-chair of the trustees of the Ditchley Foundation[1] and member of the board of the Franco-British Colloque.

[1] He wrote the book Politics and the Pound, a study of the management of exchange rates by the British Government, and its relations with Europe since 1979.