John Gapper

John Gap writes for an award-winning business column focused on finance, media, and technology. He also writes editorials and appears on screen, such as regularly receiving interviews with the Financial Times and having lunch together. He is one of the most senior and influential writers in the Financial Times. Prior to assuming his current position in 2003, his coverage covered the financial and media industries, as well as employment issues. From 2005 to 2012, he worked in the New York office of the Financial Times and led the newspaper's successful business expansion in the United States. Garp used to be a review editor for the Financial Times, mainly responsible for introducing and editing the award-winning review pages of the newspaper. As a columnist, he has written articles on various topics, including Wall Street and the aftermath of the financial crisis; Management and company strategy, future digital news and entertainment; Innovation and venture capital; How should companies handle crises and the disruptive impact of technology. Gap has written two novels, The Ghost Shift and Fatal Debt, both published by Random House in the United States. He also authored non fiction literary works on How to be a Rogue Trader and the sparkling scam All That Glitters, as well as a report on the collapse of Barings, a Bahraini bank. He often appears on television screens and radio stations, including the BBC, CNBC, and CNN. Gap has won the 2013 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary at the 2013 Gerald Loeb Review Awards, and has also won three Best Business Citation Column of the Year awards from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. In the UK, he was named Best Business Columnist at the 2014 Review Awards and also won the Technical Writer and Best Communicator awards at the Annual Business Journalist Awards. He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the UK by GQ magazine. Gap has received an open scholarship from Exeter College, Oxford University, where he studied philosophy, political science, and economics. He was also awarded the Harkness Fellowship to study at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania at the Wharton School of Business. Before joining the Financial Times in 1987, he was an intern journalist at Mirror Group Newspapers, a subsidiary of the Mirror Group