Martin Harry Wolf CBE (born 16 August[1] 1946 in London) is a British journalist who focuses on economics.

His father Edmund was an Austrian Jewish playwright who migrated from Vienna to England before World War II.

[3] In London, Edmund met Wolf's mother, a Dutch Jew who had lost nearly thirty close relatives in the Holocaust.

[5] As a graduate student Wolf moved on to Nuffield College, also at Oxford, which he left with a Master of Philosophy degree (MPhil) in economics in 1971.

[3][4] Wolf left the World Bank in 1981, to become Director of Studies at the Trade Policy Research Centre, in London.

Allowing inflation to bring real pay down and expecting services to maintain or improve standards was in Wolf's opinion "plainly dishonest."

In 2018, on the occasion of the KU Leuven Patron Saint's Day he received a doctorate honoris causa of the university [10] Wolf is a regular participant in the annual Bilderberg meetings of politicians and bankers.

[11] Wolf has been named in the top 100 lists of global thinkers by Prospect[12] and by Foreign Policy magazine.

[3] Despite Wolf's close connections with the powerful, he is trusted for his independence and is known to criticise initiatives promoted by his friends when he considers it to be in the public interest.

"[15] Prospect magazine described him as "the Anglosphere's most influential finance journalist",[12] while economist Kenneth Rogoff has said, "He really is the premier financial and economics writer in the world".

In 2019, Wolf received the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.