Chris Giles is the Economics Editor of the Financial Times. He leads the reporting of economics in the newspaper and on FT.com and has been Economics Editor since 2004.

He reports on international economic trends and the British economy and contributes comment to FT.com’s premium blog; dedicated to central banking and Money Supply. He was previously the FT’s leader writer on economic affairs.

Chris was named Business Journalist of the Year at British Journalism Awards 2012. He has also won the Royal Statistical Society’s prize for excellence in journalism in 2008 and 2012. He is a member of the 2014 advisory board of the Journal of the European Economic Association.

Before becoming Economics Editor, Chris spent a year at the communications regulator, Ofcom, writing reports into digital switchover and public service broadcasting.

Prior to joining the Financial Times in 2000, he was an economics reporter at the BBC. He started his career in research, spending seven years as an economist for the Institute for Fiscal Studies and has a wide publications record. At IFS he led or worked on projects for clients including, the Treasury, OECD, and the European Commission.

Chris is a graduate of Cambridge University and holds a Master’s degree in Economics from Birkbeck College, London University.

Gavyn Davies has been Chairman of Fulcrum Asset Management since 2004. He is a founding partner of Active Private Equity and Anthos Capital. He is a Senior Adviser to Prisma Capital, a subsidiary of KKR.

Mr Davies joined the Policy Unit at 10 Downing Street as an Economist in 1974 and was an Economic Policy Adviser to the Prime Minister from 1976-79.

He then pursued a career as a City economist, first with Phillips and Drew (1979-81), then with Simon and Coates (1981-86).  He joined Goldman Sachs International in April 1986 and was a Partner or Managing Director from 1988 to 2001. He was also the firm’s Chief Economist over that period and Chairman of the Global Investment Research Department. From 1979 to 2001, he was repeatedly ranked as the City's top UK, European or global economist in surveys of institutional investors. From 1992 to 1997, he was a member of HM Treasury's Independent Forecasting Panel.

In 1999, he chaired a UK government inquiry into 'The Future Funding of the BBC'. He was appointed Chairman of the BBC in October 2001 and resigned his position in January 2004.

He has been an Economic Adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee on the Treasury and a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics.

Mr Davies graduated in Economics from St John's College, Cambridge, followed by two years of research at Balliol College, Oxford. He has received an Honorary Doctor of Science (social sciences) from the University of Southampton, an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from Nottingham University, a Fellowship of The University of Wales, Aberystwyth, a Fellowship of Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, and an honorary doctorate from Middlesex University.

Hélène Rey, OBE, is Lord Bagri Professor of Economics at London Business School. Until 2007, she was at Princeton University, as Professor of Economics and International Affairs. Her research focuses on external imbalances, financial crises, the links between monetary policy and the financial sector, and the organisation of the international monetary system.

She has received numerous prizes, including the inaugural Birgit Grodal Award, the Yrjö Jahnsson Award of the European Economic Association and the inaugural Carl Menger Preis. She is an elected foreign member of the Econometric Society, the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a member of the French Financial Stability Committee.

Elina Ribakova is a Visiting Fellow at Bruegel. Her expertise is in financial markets, emerging economies and central banking. She has had an extensive career in finance at Citigroup, Amundi (European asset manager), Avantium (Emerging Markets dedicated hedge fund) and most recently as Managing Director of Research at Deutsche Bank. Prior to that, she worked for nine years in policy making at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC where she was involved in several programme countries in Europe, Asia and Africa.

She studied Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics and completed her graduate studies at the University of Warwick in 1999. During 2015-16 she was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs of the London School of Economics. She has published extensively including in academic journals and is a frequent contributor to Bloomberg, Sky News, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, BBC and economic blogs such as Project Syndicate.

Martin Wolf is Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 “for services to financial journalism”. He was a member of the UK government’s Independent Commission on Banking between June 2010 and September 2011. Mr Wolf is an honorary fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University and King’s College, London. He is also an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham. In 2014, he was made a University Global Fellow of Columbia University, and a Senior Fellow in Global Economic Policy at its School of International Public Affairs. He is a member of the International Media Council of the World Economic Forum.

Mr Wolf was made a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, by Nottingham University in July 2006, by Kingston University in January 2010, and by Macquarie University, Australia, in 2012. He was also made a Doctor of Science, honoris causa, by the London School of Economics in December 2006 and by Warwick University in July 2009.

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. In 2006, he became the sixth winner of the Journalism Prize of the Fundacio Catalunya Oberta (Open Catalonia Foundation). He won the “Commentator of the Year” award at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards of 2008. He was placed 15th in Foreign Policy’s list of the Top 100 Global Thinkers in December 2009, 37th in the same list for 2010 and 55th for 2011. Mr Wolf won the “Ludwig-ErhardPreis für Wirtschaftspublizistik” (“Ludwig Erhard Prize for economic commentary”) for 2009. He won “Commentariat of the Year 2009” at the Comment Awards, sponsored by Editorial Intelligence. 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. He won the 33rd Ischia International Journalism Prize in 2012. He won the Overseas Press Club of America’s prize for “best commentary on international news in any medium” for 2013. His most recent publications are Why Globalization Works (Yale University Press, 2004), Fixing Global Finance (Washington D.C: Johns Hopkins University Press, and London: Yale University Press, 2008 and 2010) and The Shifts and The Shocks: What we’ve learned – and have still to learn – from the financial crisis (London and New York: Allen Lane, 2014). China Business News named Fixing Global Finance its “Financial Book of the Year” for 2009.

Mr Wolf was educated at Oxford University.

Gideon Rachman became Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator for the Financial Times in 2006. He speaks authoritatively about economics, politics, and globalisation as they apply to Asia, Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and more, and writes a weekly column on international politics as well as feature articles. Mr Rachman joined the FT after a 15-year career at The Economist, which included spells as a foreign correspondent in Brussels, Washington and Bangkok. He also edited The Economist’s business and Asia sections. Mr Rachman’s book, Zero-Sum World, about the future of international relations was published in the UK in 2010. He was named as foreign affairs commentator of the year in the UK Comment Awards for 2010. He is a regular broadcaster for — amongst others — the BBC, CNN and NPR, and also a regular public speaker before both academic and business audiences. Mr Rachman is a graduate of Caius College, Cambridge and has been a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

John Chipman CMG is Director-General and Chief Executive of The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). He has served on a variety of corporate international advisory boards and company Boards of Directors and consults widely for businesses with international interests. His Harvard Business Review article of September 2016 on ‘Why Your Company needs a Foreign Policy’ has been influential in guiding corporate policy. He speaks regularly to business audiences on political risk, regional security and global trends. He is the author of two books and numerous articles and opinion pieces. Prior to assuming the Directorship of the IISS in 1993 he served as a Research Associate (1983-84), Assistant Director (1987-90) and Director of Studies (1990-93) at the IISS with a spell (1985-87) as a Research Associate at the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs in Paris.

As CEO of the IISS, Dr Chipman has directed its growth globally as the world’s premier institute providing facts and analysis on international security issues and has developed its role as a convener of vital inter-governmental summits. He conceived and established two regional security institutions under IISS auspices: in the Asia-Pacific the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue hosted by Singapore, and in the Middle East the IISS Manama Dialogue hosted by Bahrain. He was made Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 1999. He holds a BA (Hons) from Harvard, an MA (Distinction) from the London School of Economics and an M.Phil and D.Phil from Balliol College Oxford.

Miranda Green is a political writer and commentator with experience of both sides of the divide between political parties and the media. After training as a reporter, she worked for the Liberal Democrats in the House of Commons from 1995 to 1999, ending up as Paddy Ashdown's press secretary. After a short stint at the BBC political unit she went to the Financial Times to work on both UK and global news and was the paper's Education Correspondent and Political Correspondent. She was founding Editor of The Day, a daily online news and current affairs service for schools and teenagers before returning to the FT, where she is now Deputy Opinion Editor and a columnist on social policy and politics. A regular on political broadcast shows and sometime presenter of BBC Radio 4's What The Papers Say, she was recently named the 2018 prizewinner in the Comment Awards' social, diary and culture commentator of the year category.

Denis Staunton has been London Editor of The Irish Times since October 2015, leading its coverage of Brexit. Before moving to London, he was the newspaper's Deputy Editor and he has also served as Foreign Editor and as a correspondent in Washington, Brussels and Berlin.