Paul Taylor is the FT’s New York-based Business Technology and Telecoms Editor. He is responsible for The Connected Business section of the FT and is a regular writer for both the newspaper and FT.com. He also writes a ‘How To’ column on technology for SMB’s and executives.

In his 35 years at the FT, Paul has been local government correspondent, assistant news editor, Americas page editor, New York correspondent, foreign news editor, SE Asia business correspondent and management writer. He was the FT’s UK-based IT correspondent for most of the 1990s and launched the FT’s Personal Technology column in 2002.

Paul left the FT briefly in 2000 to help found a web-based technology analysis start-up and moved back to New York, where he is based now. He has long had a passion for technology and computing and readily admits to being a gadget and gizmo freak and “a bit of a geek”.

Born in Liverpool in 1953, Paul graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and has a postgraduate diploma in journalism from Cardiff University. He is married and has four children.

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