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Anne-Sylvaine Chassany

World News Editor

Anne-Sylvaine Chassany is the Financial Times' 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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  • Sunday, 8 May, 2022
    Global InsightEuropean Union
    Draghi and Scholz show how Europe’s power balance is shifting

    The contrasting fortunes of the German and Italian leaders mirror changing relations between north and south

  • Sunday, 13 March, 2022
    Global InsightUS foreign policy
    Having frozen out Putin, Biden is warming to other autocrats

    The US president is courting Venezuela and re-engaging with Saudi Arabia to overcome his oil sanctions against Moscow

  • Friday, 25 February, 2022
    War in Ukraine: free to read41 min
    Russia's invasion of Ukraine: what next? | FT Live

    See highlights of the FT subscriber discussion on the geopolitical and economic fallout of Putin's war

  • Wednesday, 16 February, 2022
    InterviewWar in Ukraine
    France urges revamp of Europe’s security order in face of Russia threat

    French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says Nato has emerged stronger from current crisis

  • Sunday, 30 January, 2022
    Global InsightEU foreign policy
    Britain’s activism in Ukraine crisis rattles Paris and Berlin

    French and German officials wary that London’s assertive foreign policy could reopen splits from the Iraq war

  • Wednesday, 15 December, 2021
    French politics
    French look on in envy at Germany’s grown-up politics

    As France’s presidential campaign turns toxic, Berlin offers a consensual alternative

  • Tuesday, 7 December, 2021
    InterviewFT Books Essay
    Goncourt winner Mohamed Mbougar Sarr: ‘French is my language too’

    His novel won France’s leading literary prize — yet it confronts head-on an establishment struggling to shake off colonial attitudes

  • Wednesday, 12 May, 2021
    Special ReportInvesting in Canada
    Team Canada ‘will come roaring back’

    Canada’s ‘minister of everything’ is pinning her hopes on a consumer-led rebound from Covid-19 setbacks

  • Wednesday, 28 April, 2021
    InterviewGlobal trade
    Biden’s global tax plan ‘breakthrough moment’, Canada’s Freeland says

    Finance minister emphasises that US administration is ‘very collaborative’ on vaccines

  • Saturday, 3 April, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    Vaccine dispute revives mutual mistrust across the Channel

    Relations between the UK and France have been bad — and are getting worse — since Brexit

  • Wednesday, 10 February, 2021
    Coronavirus treatment
    The west should pay attention to Russia and China’s vaccine diplomacy

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

  • Thursday, 10 December, 2020
    French politics
    ‘Generation VGE’ owe a debt to a reformer French president

    A cohort that includes Emmanuel Macron can learn lessons from the presidency of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing

  • Wednesday, 30 September, 2020
    French politics
    Macron’s rapprochement with Putin is not worth it

    French president’s ‘trust-building’ with Russian leader has failed

  • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
    InterviewBiography and memoir
    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
    France
    French public feels lied to as lockdown fatigue grows

    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
    A selection of 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
    World6 min
    Brexit focus after UK election, Japan rates, Putin interview, cannabis earnings

    Josh de la Mare on some of the big stories the FT is watching this week

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

    FT's Veronica Kan-Dapaah previews some of the big stories the Financial Times is watching this week

  • Sunday, 17 November, 2019
    UK general election: Battleground dispatches
    Scottish nationalists set to squeeze Tories at election

    SNP looks to benefit from Conservative disaffection with Johnson north of the border

  • Friday, 8 November, 2019
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Disturbance: Surviving Charlie Hebdo — a recollection of terror

    Philippe Lançon’s harrowing memoir of surviving the Paris terrorist attack

  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2019
    Venezuela
    US claims Rosneft ‘central’ to survival of Venezuela’s Maduro

    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 religious symbols

    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
    A selection of the FT’s biggest stories and best reads every Friday

    Anne-Sylvaine Chassany’s top reads this week: Jammu and Kashmir tensions; a stronger dollar; gender-neutral grammar

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