Chief political commentator and executive
editor, Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/robert-shrimsley
https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/robert-shrimsley/
US opinion editor at the Financial Times. Moynihan Center Public Scholar, 2025-26, CCNY
Head of social media, Financial Times
Video @ FT, before that BBC
Mastodon @tomhannen@mastodon.social
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Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
Executive editor and director of editorial growth and engagement at the FT. Long-suffering Spurs fan (it's a family thing).
Assistant Editor, BBC Newsnight
Writes the most popular UK politics Substack (samf.substack.com)
Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State" out now. (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024).
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
CEO, Education Policy Institute
Charity Trustee and former civil servant.
Trade policy. Partner @ Flint Global. Associate fellow @ Chatham House.
I have a Substack: https://mostfavourednation.substack.com
Research and policy. Former senior UK government comms official and adviser. Happiest in a focus group. Once a journalist. Further back, a historian of the media, war and public opinion. Halberdier. Bristol City FC.
Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge; economist
Partner, Public First and Head of Education Practice. Education strategy + policy advisory. Former civil servant + think tanker. Occasional loud LFC. Centrist Dad, so naturally I also have a Substack.
Public Policy Prof at University of Manchester. On a mission.
TV. Dirt bag left. Rowena Wallace forever.
Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Advised the Lib Dems during coalition. Somehow still able to get work
Weekend news editor, the Financial Times. I did write the headline.
Data Editor, @thetimes.com
I write a weekly data column called Go Figure
🔗 https://www.thetimes.com/profile/tom-calver
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