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Lunch with the FT is a weekly interview in the Life & Arts section with leading cultural and business figures
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Afternoon tea with the FT: Mohamed Nasheed
The president of the Maldives calls for a serious commitment on the part of developed and developing countries to become carbon neutral over this century
Lunch with the FT: Evgeny Lebedev
The charming billionaire oligarch talks to Peter Aspden about growing up as the son of a KGB agent, buying the Evening Standard and promoting Russian culture in Britain
Lunch with the FT: Andrew Strauss
England’s cricket captain talks to FT Editor Lionel Barber about managing maverick talents, how money is changing the game and his reverence for the Aussie fighting spirit
Lunch with the FT: Sigrid Rausing
The Tetra Pak heiress and owner of Granta talks about her decision to cut commercialism from the British literary magazine and why saving it is, in itself, a philanthropic act
Lunch with the FT: Eliot Spitzer
The New York governor who was forced to resign last year following a sex scandal talks about real friends, making amends to his family and his disdain for financial regulators
Dinner with the FT: Prince Andrew
The Duke of York, who has flown from Algeria to Ulaanbaatar and made 628 official engagements last year alone, talks about his role as Britain’s travelling salesman
Lunch with the FT: Denise Rich
The songwriter and socialite who has a thing about numbers talks to Vanessa Friedman about her cancer research charity, which was established in memory of her daughter
Lunch with the FT: David Swensen
The manager of Yale’s endowment fund who has become an investing legend among the cognoscenti tells Chrystia Freeland why he loves his job as much as he does
Lunch with the FT: Dalia Grybauskaite
An economist with a black belt in karate, the president of Lithuania tells Gideon Rachman how she plans to get the country out of the economic doldrums
Lunch with the FT: David Hare
The playwright talks to Gillian Tett about his latest work ‘The Power of Yes’ and explains why he cannot understand, let alone empathise with, bankers’ motives
