Martin Wolf

Martin Wolf is the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, where his columns have shaped the thinking of policymakers, central bankers, and investors for nearly four decades. A former World Bank economist who never finished a PhD, he became, in Lawrence Summers' words, 'the world's preeminent financial journalist.' Once a forceful champion of globalization and free markets, he reversed course after the 2008 crash and now argues that capitalism must be fixed to save democracy itself.