Authority on all aspects of international relations, globalization, economic development and the media.


Highlights

Few people understand the dramas unfolding on the international stage better than Quentin Peel. He excels at relating politics and economics, with a bit of history and geography, to explain the tensions at work. He's an expert on issues related to the EU's evolution.

Quentin has been very well received as an analyst of the current economic crisis.

He also has focused on failed and failing states and countries in transition (from dictatorship to democracy, from poverty to prosperity).

Having covered major world-changing events over the past 30 years as an eye-witness reporter, he sees the social, political and economic forces shaping world affairs with historical perspective, personal knowledge and deep insight.

In addition to being Chief Correspondent Germany and Associate Editor, Quentin Peel is an associate editor responsible for leader and feature writing, and writes a regular foreign affairs column, Between the Lines.

He writes for several major media besides the FT: The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Pravda (Russia), Der Standard (Austria), the Daily Times (Nigeria), and the Irish Times. He appears regularly broadcast media around the world, as well.

Quentin has won several awards from several countries. He is fluent in French and German and speaks halting Russian.

Postings

Quentin was in Johannesburg when Rhodesia became Zimbabwe in 1976 and apartheid began to weaken.

He was Africa Editor, based in London, from 1981 to 1984, covering drought in the Sahel and the parallel trends of instability and development on that continent.

He covered the emergence of the EU as European Community correspondent and bureau chief in Brussels in the mid-1980s.

In 1988, he was posted in Moscow and covered the Gorbachev revolution, the end of the Soviet empire and the end of the cold war.

From 1991, he covered German reunification from Bonn.

He became Foreign Editor in 1994 and was International Affairs Editor from 1998 - 2010.

Quentin is currently Chief Correspondent Germany and Associate Editor.

Topics

The global financial crisis—after the train wreck, who will run the railways?

All aspects of international relations— transatlantic relations, European politics, Russia and Europe, enlargement of the EU, security questions relating to NATO, terrorism, etc.

All aspects of globalization, free movement of people, capital, and information, and the changing balance of power with the rise of China, India, Brazil, etc.

Economic development relating to the poorest, i.e. in Africa, and questions of poverty, disease, migration, etc.

All aspects of the media, and the challenges of changing technology, the internet, tensions between media and government, or media and business, etc.

Religion, especially religion and state tolerance of fundamentalism and immigration.

Transatlantic relations, post-9/11 security.

The economic and geopolitical dimensions of energy security and climate change.
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Strong experience as a moderator/chairman, with a provocative and irreverent style.

Credentials

• Chief Correspondent Germany and Associate Editor, Financial Times
• Former International Affairs Editor, Financial Times
• Several other posts at FT
• Fluent in French, German, some Russian

Honors & Prizes

• David Holden prize for International Reporter of the Year, UK Press Awards, 1990.
• Premio di Napoli, awarded by the city of Naples and the European Parliament, for reporting on European affairs, 2002.
• Honorary doctorate, Birmingham University, UK, 2006.
• Chevalier, French Légion d’Honneur, 2006.