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Quentin Peel is international affairs editor of the Financial Times. He is also an associate editor, responsible for leader and feature writing, and writes a foreign affairs column, Between The Lines.
Quentin has worked at the FT since 1975. Between 1976 and 1994 he served successively as southern Africa correspondent, Africa editor, European Community correspondent and Brussels bureau chief, Moscow correspondent, and chief correspondent in Germany. On his return to London he became foreign editor. He took up his present position in September 1998.
He was born in July 1948 and educated at Queens’ College, Cambridge, where he studied economics, with French and German. He is married, with five children. - -
Warning over inflation threat to poor
Emerging markets will face grave problems in controlling inflation and money supply because of the expansionary economic policies of industrialised countries, writes Quentin Peel
Russia heats up frozen conflict
The trouble with frozen conflicts is that they seldom stay that way. The unrecognised rebel region of Abkhazia looks like being the latest that could easily tip back...
Big-business ties that bind Putin to Berlusconi
On the face of it, Silvio Berlusconi and Vladimir Putin scarcely look like natural bedfellows. Italy's prime minister-elect is a rightwing, pro-US billionaire media...
Business ties bind Putin to Berlusconi
The Russian president is as much chief executive of Russia Inc as he is a national leader, while for Italy’s prime minister-elect, politics is about doing business, writes Quentin Peel
Party echoes Soviet times, but with style
United Russia has no ideology and only one purpose: to back Vladimir Putin as Russian president and now – presumably – to support Dmitry Medvedev, his chosen successor
Comment: Nordics stay hot for globalisation
In spite of high costs, high living standards, and what many would regard as absurdly generous welfare systems, the Nordic world has flourished in the new competitive era
Cowen must revive the Celtic tiger
After the drop in growth forecasts, Ireland’s finance minister will be hard pressed to deliver on election promises when he takes over as taoiseach, writes Quentin Peel
Mud finally sticks to the Teflon Taoiseach
The sudden resignation of Bertie Ahern as Ireland's prime minister, less than a year after winning a third term in office, came as a political bombshell in Dublin...
Mud finally sticks to the Teflon Taoiseach
Mr Ahern was a grassroots politician entrenched in a system based on personal connections – and favours – that has not kept pace with the dynamic growth of the economy
Map is of little use to Macedonia
Of all the central and east European nations queuing up to join the Nato alliance, one country both needs and deserves the move more than any other: the Balkan...
