Gerard Baker

Gerard Baker has been Washington Bureau Chief for the Financial Times since the beginning of 1998. He has been based in the US for the last eighteen months, writing about US economic policy and conditions. He has focused much of his time on international economics – a steady stream of columns, features and analysis of global issues, especially on the effects of the Asian financial crisis on the US economy and the US policy response to it.

From 1994 to 1996 he was Tokyo correspondent for the paper, where he wrote extensively on the Japanese financial crisis and economic slump.

From 1988 to 1994 he worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation, specialising in economic and financial news and current affairs reporting. He was the BBC’s economics corespondent from 1992 to 1994 and previously a senior producer of Panorama, the award – winning international current affairs programme.

Before becoming a journalist, he worked as an economist for a commercial bank in the City of London and at the Bank of England. He has appeared frequently on US and international television, radio and on-line programs, including CNBC, C-Span the BBC and NPR , and has given lectures at a number of public events in Washington and elsewhere.

He graduated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, with a First Class honours degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1983.

Mr. Baker’s presentations bring a world wide perspective on the affects of Global Economic trends. Having spent the past ten years analysing and reporting on the consequences of shifts in the Global Economy, Mr. Baker can present both the macro and micro point of view. Beyond that he can also teach your audience how to detect and monitor non-economic issues that will ultimately affect the Global Economy.

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