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Lionel Barber

Lionel Barber (Born 1955 in London

London

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, United Kingdom

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) is an English

England

Journalist

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.

Barber was appointed as Editor of the Financial Times
Financial Times

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(FT) in November 2005. Previously, he was the Financial Times' U.S.

United States

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Managing Editor. Prior to that, he was the Editor of the FT's Continental European edition (2000-2002), during which he briefed US President George W. Bush

George W. Bush

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ahead of his first trip to Europe. Other positions at the FT include News Editor (1998-2000), Brussels

Brussels

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Bureau Chief (1992-1998), and both Washington Correspondent and US Editor (1986-1992).

He began his career in journalism in 1978 as a reporter for The Scotsman

The Scotsman

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Lionel Barber (Born 1955 in London

London

United Kingdom

England

Journalist

United States

George W. Bush

Brussels

The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a Scotland national newspaper, published in Edinburgh.It has an audited circulation of 53,513. This represents a significant drop from an approximately 100,000 circulation in the 1980s....
. In 1981, after being named Young Journalist of the Year in the British press awards, he moved to The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times (UK)

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, where he was a business correspondent.

He was educated at Dulwich College

Dulwich College

Dulwich College is a selective independent school for boys in Dulwich, a suburb of south-east London, United Kingdom. The College was founded in 1619 by Edward Alleyn, a successful Elizabethan era actor, with the original purpose of educating 12 poor scholars as the foundation of "God's Gift"....
and at Oxford University, from where he graduated with a joint honours degree in German and Modern History. Barber has co-written several books including a history of Reuters

Reuters

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news agency (The Price of Truth, 1985) and the Westland political scandal

Westland affair

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(Not with Honour, 1986.) In 1985, he was the Laurence Stern fellow

Laurence Stern fellowship

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at the Washington Post. In 1992, he was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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, working under Nelson Polsby at the Institute of Governmental Studies. In 1996, he was a visiting fellow at the Robert Schuman centre at the European University Institute

European University Institute

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in Florence.