FT hires Tooze to be contributing editor

Adam Tooze

The Financial Times has hired author and economist Adam Tooze as a contributing editor in New York.

Tooze will bring his perspective to the multiple crises besetting the global economy to the FT in a monthly column.

Tooze is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University and director of the European Institute. He is the author of several books, the most recent is ‘Shutdown: How COVID shook the world’s economy’ (2021). He also writes the Chartbook Newsletter.

“Adam is the perfect fit for the FT and for this moment. He has long been a must-read for our readers and we are thrilled that he is now joining our stable of distinguished external writers,” said Alice Fishburn, opinion and analysis editor at the FT, in a statement.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.