Professional Affiliation

Award-winning journalist and chief political commentator at the Financial Times

Expert Bio

Philip Stephens is an award-winning journalist and chief political commentator at the Financial Times. He was previously director of the FT’s editorial board. Throughout his career, he has had unique access to foreign policymakers in Britain and around the world. Stephens won the David Watt Prize for Outstanding Political Journalism; the UK Political Studies Association’s Political Journalist of the Year; and Political Journalist of the Yar in the British Press Awards. He is the author of Britain Alone, Politics and the Pound, and Tony Blair.