Martin Wolf
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Martin Wolf is a British journalist. He is associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000.
He left Oxford University with a master of philosophy degree in economics in 1971 to join the World Bank's young professionals programme, becoming a senior economist in 1974. He left the World Bank in 1981, to become Director of Studies at the Trade Policy Research Centre, in London. He joined the FT in 1987 where he has been associate editor since 1990 and chief economics commentator since 1996.
He was joint winner of the Wincott Foundation senior prize for excellence in financial journalism in both 1989 and 1997. He won the RTZ David Watt memorial prize in 1994. He is visiting fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, a special professor at the University of Nottingham and an honorary fellow of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy.
He has been a forum fellow at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos since 1999. He was awarded an honorary degree - DSc (Econ) - of the University of London by the London School of Economics in December 2006.
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- Why Globalization Works (2004)
