Sebastian Payne, a White Hall editor at the Financial Times, has left to join the think tank Onward as director.
Payne had been with the Financial Times for seven years, having joined as a political leader writer and digital opinion editor. He was an online editor and deputy Coffee House editor at The Spectator and was a national politics reporter at The Washington Post.
He worked as a data reporter at The Telegraph.
Payne has a B.S. from Durham University and a M.A. from City University of London.
