Quentin Peel is international affairs editor of the Financial Times. He is also an associate editor, responsible for leader and feature writing, and has a foreign affairs column, which appears every Tuesday.

Quentin has worked at the FT since 1975, when he joined the foreign desk after training as a journalist on the Newcastle Journal, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Between 1976 and 1994 he served successively as southern Africa correspondent, Africa editor, European Community correspondent and Brussels bureau chief, Moscow correspondent, and chief correspondent in Germany. On his return to London he became foreign editor, running the international reporting operations of the FT. He took up his present position in September 1998.

He was born in July 1948 and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied economics, with French and German. He is married, with five children.

E-mail Quentin Peel: quentin.peel@ft.com