Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson is the US business editor of the Financial Times, leading its reporting and analysis of US business in an age of populism, policy upheavals and shifting expectations of corporate America. He manages a team of corporate reporters while writing news, analysis and commentary and helping develop new offerings for the FT’s core corporate audience such as Moral Money, its award-winning ESG newsletter.

Until 2018, Andrew was the FT’s US news editor and an FT assistant editor, directing its coverage of and for the Americas and helping steer its strategic evolution from a print focus to a digital newsroom with growing impact in video, audio, social media, newsletter and data journalism.

From 2005 to 2013, he was the FT’s global media editor, leading its coverage of sectors ranging from the music and movie businesses to digital media and marketing.

In 24 years with the FT in New York and London, Andrew has been deputy news editor, edited its management features section, covered M&A and US consumer industries, and written for the influential Lex column.

A graduate of Cambridge University, he started his career at the Daily Telegraph in London and won the Newsbios “30 under 30” award for young financial journalists in 2000 and 2001. He often moderates FT Live events and other conferences and appears on television, radio, FT videos and FT podcasts.