Speaker Details
Martin Wolf
Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times
Martin Wolf is Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 "or services to financial journalism.
Mr Wolf is an honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, an honorary fellow of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy (Oxonia), a special professor at the University of Nottingham and a member of the Board of Governors of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, in Israel. He has been a forum fellow at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, since 1999 and is a member of its International Media Council. He was made a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, by Nottingham University in July 2006. He was made a Doctor of Science (Economics) of London University, honoris causa, by the London School of Economics in December 2006. He was made a Doctor of Science, honoris causa, by Warwick University, in July 2009. He was made a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, by Kingston University, in January 2010.
Mr Wolf was joint winner of the Wincott Foundation senior prize for excellence in financial journalism for 1989 and again for 1997. He won the RTZ David Watt memorial prize for 1994. This prize is granted annually "to a writer judged to have made an outstanding contribution in the English language towards the clarification of national, international and political issues and the promotion of their greater understanding". He won the "Accenture Decade of Excellence" at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards of 2003. Mr Wolf won the Newspaper Feature of the Year Award at the Workworld Media Awards 2003 for an article on UK pensions.
On July 6th 2006, Mr Wolf became the sixth winner of the Journalism Prize of the Fundacio Catalunya Oberta (Open Catalonia Foundation). He won the AMEC Lifetime achievement Award at the Workworld Media Awards for 2007. He won the "Commentator of the Year" award at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards of 2008. He was also placed among the world's 100 leading public policy intellectuals by the British magazine Prospect and the US magazine, Foreign Policy in May 2008 and voted 38th in a subsequent worldwide poll, in which more than half a million people participated. He was placed 15th in Foreign Policy's list of the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" in December 2009. Mr Wolf won the "Ludwig-Erhard-Preis für Wirtschaftspublizistik" (Ludwig Erhard Prize for economic commentary) from the Ludwig Erhard Stiftung (Foundation) for 2009. He won "Commentariat of the Year 2009" at the Comment Awards, sponsored by Editorial Intelligence. He won the Hans Mőller Medaille for 2009, awarded by the Münchner Volkswirte Alumni Club. He was joint winner of the 2009 award for columns in "giant newspapers" at the 15th annual Best in Business Journalism competition of The Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
Mr Wolf's most recent publications are Why Globalization Works (Yale University Press, 2004) and Fixing Global Finance (Washington D.C: Johns Hopkins University Press, and London: Yale University Press, 2008).
