Francesco Guerrera is the FT’s US Business Editor, with responsibility for corporate coverage in North America.

Before taking up this position he was the FT’s Asia financial correspondent where he covered Asian mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, private equity and capital markets. Prior to that, he was European Union correspondent based in Brussels, covering competition and the single market.

Before joining the Brussels bureau, Francesco was based at the FT in London. His work there included co-authoring a three-part investigation into “conflict diamonds”, which won the Foreign Correspondents’ Association award.

He has also won awards for his business reporting in Asia and the US, and, most recently, the first prize at the M&A International Awards.

Before the FT, Francesco worked on the business pages of the Independent and, shortly after graduating from City University in London, for the news agency AFX News. Born in Italy, he is a lifelong fan of Inter Milan football club. - -

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