Janan Ganesh

Janan Ganesh is a British journalist, author and political commentator. Ganesh is a biweekly columnist for the Financial Times. He writes on international politics for the FT and culture for FT Weekend.[1]

Janan Ganesh
Born1982
Lagos, Nigeria
NationalityBritish
Education
OccupationJournalist
Employers

Background

Ganesh was born in Nigeria.[2] He attended Stanley Technical School for Boys, a voluntary aided school in South London; afterward, he studied Politics at the University of Warwick; he then studied Public Policy at University College London.[3]

Career

For two years, Ganesh was a Researcher at Policy Exchange, a Westminster-based think tank on the political right set up by Conservative MPs Nick Boles, Michael Gove and Francis Maude. He was political correspondent for The Economist from 2007 to 2012, before joining the Financial Times.[4][5] Between 2013 and 2017, he regularly appeared on the BBC show Sunday Politics.[4]

Ganesh co-authored Compassionate Conservatism (2006) with Jesse Norman, which received the T. E. Utley Memorial Prize for young journalists.[5] He is the author of George Osborne: The Austerity Chancellor (2012), a biography of British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne.[6]

From 2012 to 2018, Ganesh wrote for the Financial Times as a columnist on British politics.[7] In early 2018, he relocated to Washington D.C. to write about American politics for the same publication.[8] He later moved to Los Angeles before returning to London in 2022.[9] He continues to write weekly columns on international politics.

References
  1. "Janan Ganesh | Financial Times". www.ft.com. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
  2. "Janan's birthplace is proof of his class".
  3. Lockhart, Gavin. "Measure for measure Using outcome measures to raise standards in the NHS" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 April 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  4. "Debretts 500". Debretts. Archived from the original on 16 November 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. Arden, Christopher (7 June 2012). "Economist's Janan Ganesh joins Financial Times". Press Gazette. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  6. Ganesh, Janan (2012). George Osborne: The Austerity Chancellor. bitebackpublishing. ISBN 9781849542142.
  7. "Janan Ganesh". Financial Times. Financial Times. Retrieved 16 September 2015.
  8. "Janan Ganesh, citizen of... Washington, DC?". The Spectator. 14 February 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
  9. "Janan Ganesh". Specialist Speakers. Retrieved 13 May 2023.
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