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Jonathan Guthrie is the head of Lex, the Financial Times’s agenda-setting premium commentary service on companies and investment, and an associate editor of the FT. For six years he was City editor and writer of Lombard, an irreverent column on the Square Mile and corporate Britain. He has led investigations into Eurasian Natural Resources Corp, British Biotech and the “Gem of Tanzania” accounting fraud. Aside from Lex, he contributes regularly to House and Home and occasionally to FT Companies.

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