Alan Beattie
Alan Beattie is the World Trade Editor of the Financial Times, leading the paper’s coverage of trade policy and economic globalisation.
Previous positions with the paper include economics leader writer, commenting on a wide variety of international and domestic economic issues in the editorial column, and two years in Washington DC as chief US economics correspondent, covering the US economy, the Federal Reserve and international economics and development, including the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
Alan Beattie Joined the Financial Times in 1998 after working as an economist at the Bank of England.
He holds a Master's degree in Economics from Cambridge and a BA from Oxford in Modern History.
- EOCD Forum 2007
“The only real recourse that [Russian] people had against tsarist rule was violence and rebellion. It was once remarked that Russia's constitution was "absolutism moderated by assassination.”
Alan Beattie