John Gapper
John Gapper (born 31 May 1959) is associate editor and chief business commentator of the Financial Times. He writes a weekly column,[1][2] appearing on the comment page, about business trends and strategy. Gapper is also co-author with Nick Denton of All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings[3] and author of two novels, A Fatal Debt[4][5] and The Ghost Shift.[6][7]
Education[]
Gapper was educated at St Benedict's School, Ealing and at Exeter College, Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He later became a Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund of New York, studying US education and job training at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Career[]
Gapper trained on the Mirror Group training scheme,[8] working at the Tavistock Times. He then worked for the Daily Mirror, Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph before joining the Financial Times in 1987. He became in turn the Financial Times labour editor, banking editor and media editor and was then appointed assistant editor in charge of the comment page. Gapper became a columnist in 2003 and was based in New York between 2005 and 2012.
Books[]
- All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings[3]
- How To Be A Rogue Trader[9]
- A Fatal Debt[4]
- The Ghost Shift[6]
Awards[]
- Business commentator, Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards 2011[10] and 2014.[11]
- Gerald Loeb Award for commentary 2013.[12]
- International commentary, Society of American Business Editors and Writers Awards 2014.[13]
References[]
- ^ "John Gapper". Financial Times. Retrieved 2015-06-26.
- ^ "John Gapper - Who Comments?". whocomments.referata.com. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Gapper, John; Denton, Nick (1996). All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings. London: Hamish Hamilton. ISBN 978-0241136997.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Gapper, John (2012). A Fatal Debt. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 978-0345527899.
- ^ Powers, Katherine (2012-07-20). "Book World: Rosie Dastgir's 'A Small Fortune' and John Gapper's 'A Fatal Debt'". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2015-06-26.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Gapper, John (2015). The Ghost Shift. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 978-0345527929.
- ^ Evans, David (2015-02-06). "'The Ghost Shift', by John Gapper". Financial Times. Retrieved 2015-06-26.
- ^ "A Little Learning | Oxford Today". www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
- ^ Gapper, John (2011). How to be a Rogue Trader. Portfolio. ASIN B006CUFYTO.
- ^ "The Comment Awards : Shortlist and Winners 2011" (PDF). Commentawards.com. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
- ^ "Society of Editors, Fighting for media freedom". Societyofeditors.org. 2014-11-25. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
- ^ "2013 Loeb Award Winners Press Release | UCLA Anderson School of Management". Anderson.ucla.edu. 2013-06-25. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
- ^ "2014 BIB Winner's list « SABEW". Sabew.org. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
External links[]
Media related to John Gapper at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website
- John Gapper profile at Financial Times
- What Makes a Rogue Trader Tick? - Freakonomics blog
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