Background
Barber, Lionel was born in 1955 in London, MEDIA/COMM0.
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Lionel Barber
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Barber was educated at Dulwich College, an independent school for boys in Dulwich in South London and at Street Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating in 1978 with a joint honours degree in German and Modern History.
Career
Barber was appointed editor of the Financial Times (FT) in November 2005. Previously, he was the Financial Times" United States. managing editor and before that, editor of the FT"s Continental European edition (2000–2002), during which he briefed United States President George West. Bush ahead of his first trip to Europe. Other positions at the FT include news editor (1998–2000), Brussels bureau chief (1992–1998), and both Washington correspondent and United States editor (1986–1992).
Barber began his career in journalism in 1978 as a reporter for The Scotsman.
In 1981, after being named Young Journalist of the Year in the British press awards, he moved to the Sunday Times, where he was a business correspondent. He has co-written several books, including a history of Reuters news agency (The Price of Truth, 1985) and the Westland political scandal (Not with Honour, 1986).
In 1992, he was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, 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 in Florence.
In November 2005, he was appointed editor of the Financial Times.
