Jonathan Guthrie, an associate editor of the Financial Times and the head of Lex, the agenda-setting premium commentary service on global capital, is retiring at the end of the year.
Aside from Lex, Guthrie writes regular FT columns on world finance and nature.
For six years he was city editor and writer of Lombard, an irreverent column on the square mile and corporate Britain. He has also been enterprise editor, midlands correspondent and UK companies editor. He has led investigations into Eurasian Natural Resources Corp, British Biotech and the “Gem of Tanzania” accounting fraud.
Read his column about what has changed in financial journalism over his 37-year career here.