The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Directors’ Lunch with Lionel Barber, Editor of the Financial Times on Monday, October 29th, in the Belfer Center Library (L369)
Lionel Barber is the editor of the Financial Times, appointed in November 2005. Previously, he was the newspaper’s US managing editor, based in New York, responsible for the US edition and all US news on FT.com. Joining the FT in 1985, he was the editor of the continental European edition between 2000 and 2002 and from 1998 until 2000 he was the news editor. He has also been the Brussels bureau chief, US editor and Washington correspondent.
In 2001, Barber was invited to brief George W. Bush on European affairs ahead of the president’s inaugural mission to Europe. In the same year, European Voice named him one of the 50 most influential personalities in Europe.
Barber began his career in journalism in 1978 as a reporter for The Scotsman. He moved to The Sunday Times to become a business correspondent in 1981.
He has written several books and has lectured widely on US foreign policy, transatlantic relations, European security and monetary union in the US and Europe. He appears regularly on national and international TV and radio.
During his career, Barber has received several distinguished awards. In 1981, he was named Young Journalist of the Year in the British press awards. In 1985, he was the Laurence Stern fellow at the Washington Post. In 1991, he was a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellow and lectured at Davidson College. In 1992, he was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1994, he was awarded the Eliot-Winant fellowship and lectured at Harvard, George Washington, the University of Maryland, University of Pittsburgh and Stanford. In 1996, he was a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. In 1998, he was short-listed as Foreign Correspondent of the Year in the British press awards. In 1998, he was named one of the 101 most influential Europeans by Le Nouvel Observateur.
Barber graduated in 1978 from St Edmund Hall, Oxford University with a joint honors degree in German and modern history and speaks fluent French and German.
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