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Andrew Hill is an Associate Editor of the FT. He has been City Editor of the FT and editor of the daily Lombard column on British business and finance since September 2006.
He was the FT’s Financial Editor from June 2005 to September 2006, with overall responsibility for coverage of companies and markets. Before becoming Financial Editor, he was the FT’s Comment & Analysis Editor, in charge of the paper’s opinion and features pages.
From 1999 to 2003, he was the FT’s New York Bureau Chief. He joined the FT in 1988 and has also worked as foreign news editor, UK companies reporter and correspondent in Brussels and Milan. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1987 with a first-class degree in English.
He was named Commentator of the Year at the 2009 Business Journalist of the Year Awards, where he also received a Decade of Excellence award.
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Mandelson on Cadbury: pure politics, impure policy
So now we know what the archetypal British business will look like if Lord Mandelson and Lord Myners spin the Labour party back into power next year: a Bournville-based utility bank, staffed by Quakers paid a pittance, who give away fair-trade chocolates with every Union Jack-covered chequebook
RBS: the lessons of unintended consequences
The Treasury’s right to veto bonuses at RBS is evidence that Anglo-Saxons are quite as capable as continental Europeans at cutting off their noses to spite their faces
RBS and the government: how to defuse the tension
Tension between Royal Bank of Scotland and the Treasury will only increase as the election gets nearer. It’s Robin Budenberg’s job, and that of Sir David Cooksey and the UKFI board, to help ensure it doesn’t boil over
Don’t overstate Ofcom’s influence on BT’s deficit
Competitors fear having to help pay to fill the hole in the former monopoly’s pension scheme
M&B’s saloon bar blitzkrieg
Mitchells & Butlers deserves some credit for its saloon bar blitzkrieg on its principal shareholder. It shows the pub company’s independent and executive directors aren’t prepared to soak up what they claim are the obstructionist boardroom tactics of Joe Lewis, the billionaire investor
Annual election would concentrate directors’ minds
The governance code reforms should encourage investors to engage for the longer term and hold boards to account – which should spur directors to challenge outlandish proposals at the outset
More questions than answers in the Cadbury saga
The bid for Cadbury seems to have been running for months. But in a formal sense it hasn’t even started. Meanwhile, Cadbury shareholders’ questions are multiplying. We answer a few of them
Bolton in China: not so harmonious
Anthony Bolton’s decision is horribly starry eyed with efficient markets still being pretty alien in China
Are you a grandee?
Lombard’s short questionnaire will determine whether you have what it takes to join the advisers who will help the FSA vet bank appointments
Replumbing required
Water companies are railing against what they say is an overly political, overly harsh proposal from their regulator to keep household bills in check
