Tobias Buck

Tobias Buck was the first winner of the Nico Colchester Prize, spending three months in the autumn of 1997 as an intern at the Economist in London.

He was attached to the paper’s foreign news department, where he produced articles on topics ranging from NATO enlargement to hunting laws in the European Union.

Following his stint at the Economist, he returned to Germany to complete his law degree. In 2001, Tobias was accepted as a Financial Times graduate trainee, working as a business and finance reporter until his posting to Brussels in early 2003. As EU correspondent, he covered a wide range of topics, including trade, transport, industrial policy and agriculture.

Currently he writes about competition and internal market policy, antitrust cases and financial services legislation.

Tobias has won a number of journalism awards, and was named Young Journalist of the Year at the Foreign Press Association awards and Young Financial Journalist of the Year by the Harold Wincott Foundation. His co-authorship of a series on BP and its chief executive won him a British Press Award.