Martin Wolf is Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 for services to financial journalism. Mr. Wolf is also a visiting fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University, and a special professor at the University of Nottingham. He has been a forum fellow at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos since 1999.

Mr. Wolf was joint winner of the Wincott Foundation senior prize for excellence in financial journalism for 1989 and again for 1997. He is one of two British journalists to have won this prize twice since its establishment in 1970. He also won the RTZ David Watt memorial prize for 1994. This prize is granted annually to a writer judged to have made an outstanding contribution in the English language towards the clarification of national, international and political issues and the promotion of their greater understanding.

Mr. Wolf obtained first class honours in classical moderations at Oxford University in 1967, followed by first class honours in politics, philosophy and economics in 1969. He obtained the Master of Philosophy in economics at Oxford University in 1971. In that year, Mr. Wolf joined the World Bank as a Young Professional and was promoted to Senior Economist in 1974. In 1981 Mr. Wolf joined the Trade Policy Research Centre, London, as Director of Studies. In 1987, he joined the Financial Times as Chief Economics Leader Writer. He was promoted Associate Editor in 1990 and Chief Economics Commentator in 1996.