Chris Giles

Chris Giles
Economics Editor, Financial Times

 

Chris Giles has been the Economics Editor of the Financial Times since autumn 2004. He writes on micro and macro economic issues affecting leading economies. Based in London he has a particular focus on the United Kingdom. Previously at the Financial Times, he was the economics editorial writer.

 

He won the 2008 Royal Statistical Society prize for excellence in journalism.

 

Before joining the Financial Times in 2000, Chris Giles was an economics correspondent at the BBC. He started his career in research, spending seven years as an economist for the Institute for Fiscal Studies.