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Lionel Barber
Author and broadcaster
Former Editor-in-Chief, Financial Times
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- United Kingdom
Lionel Barber is an author, broadcaster and executive coach who as editor-in-chief led the digital transformation of the Financial Times (2005–2020).
He has interviewed many world leaders including Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Angela Merkel, Barack Obama, Wen Jiabao and Mario Draghi.
Lionel is the author of Gambling Man: the wild ride of SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son (Allen Lane 2024, Simon & Schuster 2025) and The Powerful and the Damned: private diaries in turbulent times (Penguin 2020).
He has served as chairman of the Tate and a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.