Alan Beattie
Financial Times world trade editor
Alan Beattie is a Financial Times journalist who became the paper's world trade editor, after starting out as an economist. He wrote False Economy.
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Born in the United States
About Alan Beattie
Alan Beattie earned a master's degree in economics at Cambridge and holds a BA in Modern History from Oxford. He worked as an economist at the Bank of England before joining the Financial Times in 1998. He became the paper's world trade editor in 2004, and in that role has led its reporting on trade policy and economic globalisation. Before that he held other posts at the paper, including economics leader writer, and he spent two years based in Washington as its chief US economics correspondent. His book in our catalog is False Economy.