Barney JOPSON is Executive News Editor of the Financial Times in London. He previously led FT coverage of the US retail and consumer industries as a correspondent in New York. In a 17-year career at the FT he has also covered politics, foreign policy, economics and markets in postings in Washington DC, Nairobi and Tokyo. He has won the Wincott Foundation’s young financial journalist of the year award and been awarded prizes by the Society of Publishers in Asia and the US Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and speaks Japanese, Spanish and French.