FT taps Walker to be Singapore correspondent

Owen Walker

The Financial Times has named Owen Walker to be its Singapore correspondent.

Walker currently covers European banks, primarily Swiss, French, Italian, Spanish and Benelux lenders. He was previously asset management correspondent and his reporting on Neil Woodford’s downfall contributed to the FT winning business and finance team of the year at the 2019 Society of Editors’ Press Awards.

Walker was named joint business journalist of the year by the London Press Club in 2020, and in 2021 won a Society of American Business Editors and Writers award.

His book on the Woodford scandal, “Built on a Lie,” was published by Penguin in spring 2021. His first book, “Barbarians in the Boardroom,” covered the rise of activist investors and was published in 2016.

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.