Jonathan Derbyshire has been named U.S. opinion editor for the Financial Times.
He will start shortly after President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Derbyshire is currently the FT’s executive opinion editor. He was previously managing editor of Prospect, Britain’s leading monthly magazine of politics and ideas, and culture editor of the New Statesman.
Derbyshire has also written for a number of other publications, including the Guardian, the Observer and the Times Literary Supplement. In a previous life, he taught philosophy in several British universities.