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Anne-Sylvaine Chassany

World News Editor

Anne-Sylvaine Chassany is the Financial Time's world news editor, overseeing coverage of politics and the economy from the foreign bureaus.

Prior to this role, she was the FT’s Paris bureau chief and the FT's global private equity correspondent. Before joining the FT in 2012, she worked for Bloomberg News and Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal in Paris and London, reporting on mergers and acquisitions, energy and European financial institutions.

A graduate of French business school HEC and a former associate at Paribas in Paris and New York, she won the ‘OneToWatch’ award from The Work Foundation’s WorkWorld Media Awards in 2006 for ‘Heat builds on Mittal to improve safety and wages’ following a reporting trip to Kazakhstan. She is the co-author of ‘Enron, la faillite qui ébranla l’Amérique,’ published in 2003.

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    Beijing and Moscow are using jabs to court poorer nations — but the EU and US are barely noticing

  • Thursday, 10 December, 2020
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  • Wednesday, 30 September, 2020
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    French president’s ‘trust-building’ with Russian leader has failed

  • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
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    Annie Ernaux: ‘I never feel legitimate, yet I persevere’

    The auto-fiction writer on the thrill of #MeToo after a lifetime fighting male dominance in French literature

  • Thursday, 16 April, 2020
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    Controversy over face masks erodes trust in Emmanuel Macron’s government

  • Monday, 9 March, 2020
    ReviewBooks
    Le Consentement, by Vanessa Springora

    A memoir exposing how the author as a 14-year-old was abused by a man 36 years her senior

  • Friday, 10 January, 2020
    Long Story Short
    The FT’s biggest stories and best reads every Friday

    Anne-Sylvaine Chassany’s top reads this week: Ghosn’s great escape; Soleimani’s successor; (not) Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

  • Sunday, 15 December, 2019
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    Brexit focus after UK election, Japan rates, Putin interview, cannabis earnings

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  • Sunday, 8 December, 2019
    World5 min
    Ukraine talks, UK poll, Myanmar leader in court, Dixons results

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    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Disturbance: Surviving Charlie Hebdo — a recollection of terror

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  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2019
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    Russian state-controlled company plays key role in helping regime through oil trade and financing

  • Monday, 21 October, 2019
    French politics
    French veil debate uncovers schism on religion

    Controversy over mother who wore hijab on a school field trip prompts row

  • Thursday, 17 October, 2019
    Brexit6 min
    Can Brexit breakthrough really bring resolution?

    FT's Miranda Green and Anne-Sylvaine Chassany discuss the new deal

  • Friday, 9 August, 2019
    Long Story Short
    The FT’s biggest stories and best reads every Friday

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  • Monday, 29 July, 2019
    ReviewBooks
    La Longue Nuit Syrienne, by Michel Duclos

    A diplomat’s portrait of a civil war with echoes of the 1930s

  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2019
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    The task ahead for Ursula von der Leyen

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  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2019
    Christine Lagarde
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    She may not be the best qualified candidate for ECB chief, but she is not there by chance

  • Thursday, 16 May, 2019
    World Weekly podcast13 min listen
    The fraying transatlantic alliance

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    US politics & policy
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  • Thursday, 11 April, 2019
    InterviewBooks
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