Guerrera hired for Politico Europe as chief financial correspondent

Politico Europe managing director Sheherazade Semsar, executive editor Matt Kaminski, editor-in-chief John Harris and managing editor Carrie Budoff Brown sent out the following announcement on Monday:

We’re thrilled that Francesco Guerrera will help lead the charge into this space as POLITICO’s Chief Financial Correspondent and Associate Editor. Francesco most recently was the Global Finance Editor at The Wall Street Journal, where he managed an award-winning team of some 200 reporters and editors. He previously oversaw the Financial Times’ coverage of the 2008 financial crisis as U.S. Financial and Business Editor, and before then served stints as a correspondent in London, Brussels (owning the highly competitive competition beat) and Hong Kong. He’s also a beginner in Chinese, which marks the 24^th language spoken in our newsroom, and in his spare time a playwright.

Francesco will be based in London, where we will soon open an expanded bureau of political and policy reporters, including European media correspondent Alex Spence, health care reporter Helen Collis (who joins later this month) and reporters who will cover British politics and the City of London. He’ll write a daily morning column on global finance and politics, contribute regular stories, headline our events and work with us in Brussels and Rosslyn to build up our coverage of this exciting area.