Philip Stephens is Chief Political Commentator and Associate Editor at the Financial Times, where he is a member of the Editorial Board. He is also the Vice-Chair of the Council of the Ditchley Foundation, a member of the steering group of the Anglo-French Colloque, and a member of the advisory board of the Institute for Public Policy Research.

He has won the three main prizes in British political journalism: David Watt Prize for Outstanding Political Journalism; Political Journalist of the Year by the UK Political Studies Association; and Political Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards. He is the author of ‘Politics and the Pound’, a study of British economic and European policy; and a biography of former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

He is a frequent broadcaster, speaker and moderator at international conferences on European, Transatlantic and global affairs, and offers analysis and advice to business leaders on geopolitical risk.

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