John O’Doherty

John O’Doherty, the 2004 winner of the Nico Colchester Fellowship, was born in 1978 in Dublin. He read History and Politics at Trinity College Dublin, before embarking on graduate studies in political theory at the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland.

John spent his Nico Colchester Fellowship at the Brussels bureau of the Financial Times, where he was lucky enough to interview a former vice-admiral of the US Navy, the Norwegian ambassador, and then Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler.

John’s articles have also appeared in The Baltimore Sun, The Chicago Tribune and Canadian daily La Presse.

After leaving Brussels, John was accepted on the Financial Times graduate trainee scheme, and studied journalism at City University in London, before a stint in New York, where he wrote the Wall Street report for the paper.

He has now returned to London where he is defence industries correspondent.