Martin Wolf (journalist)

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Wolf during the WEF 2013

Martin H. Wolf , CBE (born March 16, 1946 in London ) is a British economist , journalist and publicist . He is co-editor and chief commentator for the Financial Times and is widely recognized as one of the world's most influential business journalists .

Life

Wolf was born in London in 1946 to Jewish refugees. Wolf's father Edmund Wolf , a playwright, was of Jewish-Austrian descent and emigrated to England before the start of the Second World War . His mother was a Dutch Jew and lost several family members in the Holocaust . His family history would later influence him in his decision for a largely apolitical, economic career.

Martin Wolf (2011)

He attended the private University College School in Hampstead near London. He then studied Classics and later Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Corpus Christi College at Oxford University (Bachelor 1968). In 1971 he received a Masters in Economics from Nuffield College , also in Oxford. During this time he, like his father, was a supporter of the Labor Party . After graduating, he went to the World Bank , where he became Senior Economist in 1974. In 1981 he moved to London as a director of the Trade Policy Research Center . In 1987 he joined the Financial Times . He has been co-editor there since 1990 and chief commentator since 1996. He stood for an economically liberal orientation; in recent years he has increasingly represented Keynesian elements again. He is also the author of several business books such as Why Globalization Works (2nd edition, 2005) and has published in Anglo-American journals a. a. Foreign Affairs , Foreign Policy and International Affairs .

Wolf is a member of the Board of Governors of Ben Gurion University in the Negev in Israel. He is an Honorary Fellow at Corpus Christi College (since 2007) and Nuffield College (since 2010) and an Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham . Wolf has participated several times in the World Economic Forum in Davos (since 1999) and the Bilderberg Conference . He is also a member of the WEF International Media Council (since 2006) and the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy (OXONIA). From 1987 to 1993 he was a member of the National Consumer Council and from 1991 to 1996 of the Council of the Royal Economic Society . In 2009 and 2010 he was a visiting fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. In 2010/11, in response to the financial crisis, he was a member of the British Government's Independent Commission on Banking on reform proposals for banking regulation .

He is considered one of the world's most influential personalities by the magazines Prospect (England) and Foreign Policy (USA). From 2009 to 2011 he was represented in the FP Top 100 Global Thinkers ranking . International business leaders such as Mervyn Allister King , Mohamed A. El-Erian and Lawrence Summers rate its importance similarly.

He is married to the economist Alison Wolf , professor at King's College London .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • India's exports . Oxford University Press, New York 1982, ISBN 0-19-520211-2 .
  • The Resistible Appeal of Fortress Europe . AEI Press, Washington, DC 1994, ISBN 978-0-8447-3871-0 .
  • Why Globalization Works . Yale University Press, New Haven 2004, ISBN 978-0-300-10252-9 .
  • Fixing global finance . The Johns Hopkins University Press, Washington, DC 2008, ISBN 978-0-8018-9048-2 .
  • The Shifts and the Shocks. What We've Learned - and Still Have to Learn - from the Financial Crisis . Penguin Books, New York City, USA 2014, ISBN 978-1-59420-544-6 .

literature

  • Positive Thinking: Thomas Friedman and Martin Wolf . In: Andrew Jones: Globalization. Key thinkers . Polity Press, Cambridge 2010, ISBN 978-0-7456-4321-2 , pp. 130-147.
  • Joy Dooley-Sorrells: Martin Wolf . In: David A. Dieterle (Ed.): Economic Thinkers. A Biographical Encyclopedia . ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara 2013, ISBN 978-0-313-39746-2 , pp. 487-489.

Web links

Commons : Martin Wolf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author: Martin Wolf at Foreign Affairs
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolf, Martin H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH London