Lionel Barber
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Early life and career
Barber was born on January 18, 1955, to a journalist father. He was educated at Dulwich College, a boys' independent school in Dulwich, South London, and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating in 1978 with an upper second joint honours degree in German and modern history. Before being accepted a job on the Thomson regional training program, he worked for a company in Germany as an interpreter.
Career
Barber began his career in journalism in 1978 as a reporter for The Scotsman. After being named Young Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards in 1981, he became a Sunday Times business reporter after being interviewed by its editor Frank Giles. He was the Enterprising Britain correspondent (a term used to indicate the position that had been assigned to a journalist) by 1982 (an acronym that was formerly known as the company's reporter). A history of Reuters news agency (The Price of Truth, 1985) and the Westland affair are among the co-writers of several books by Mark O'Neill (Not with Honour, 1986).
In 1985, Barber joined the Financial Times. Washington correspondent and US editor (1986–1992), Brussels bureau chief (1992–1998), and news editor (1998–2000). He served as the editor of the FT Continental European edition (2000-2002), during which he briefed US President George W. Bush before his first trip to Europe.
He was elected editor of the Financial Times in November 2005, feeling that the newspaper needed a new editor. Barber interviewed Barack Obama, Wen Jiabao, Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putin, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Angela Merkel, David Cameron, and Manmohan Singh in his capacity as editor.
After publishing a letter from a reader that criticized the newspaper for a "lack of diversity" among its columnists, he said it was "time for a change."
Barber, the second longest-serving editor in the FT's history (after Sir Gordon Newton), he resigned on January 17, 2020 after 14 years. Roula Khalaf succeeded him.
Barber's next film, What Next?, an interview podcast for LBC, began in 2020.