Speaker Details
John Willman
Editorial Consultant and Former UK Business Editor and Associate Editor, Financial Times
John Willman is an Editorial Consultant based in London and a former Associate Editor of the Financial Times.In an 18-year career with the FT, he held a series of senior roles, including Chief Leader-Writer, Banking Editor, Consumer Industries Editor and latterly UK Business Editor. He won several journalism awards, including Financial Journalist of the Year at the 2001 British Press Awards and the banking award in the 2002 Business Journalist of the Year Awards.
Since stepping down from the FT at the end of January 2009, he has been working on a variety of editorial projects, writing and editing reports for government departments, public bodies and international business organisations. His commissions have included editorial supervision of the Foreign Office's G20 website ahead of the 2009 London Summit, editing the Bischoff Report on the future of UK-based financial services published by the Treasury in May 2009, and writing a City of London report on the importance of financial services published in September 2011. In March 2011, he was appointed a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee.
