Tony Barber's Present position: Europe Editor and Associate Editor, Financial Times 

Columnist and specialist writer on European political, economic and business news.

Reviewer of books on modern European history

2010-present: Europe editor and Associate editor

2007-2010:  Brussels bureau chief, FT

2002-2007:  Rome bureau chief, FT

1998-2002:  Frankfurt bureau chief, FT

1990-97:  East Europe editor and Europe editor, The Independent

1981-89:  Foreign correspondent, Reuters: New York, Washington, Chicago (1982-83), Vienna (1983), Warsaw (1984-85), Moscow (1985-87), Washington (State Department correspondent, 1987-88), Belgrade (bureau chief, 1989)

1978-81:  BA, First Class Honours in Modern History at St John’s College, Oxford University

1960:  Born in London

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Tony Barber is Europe Editor and Associate Editor at the Financial Times in London. He joined the newspaper in 1997 and served as bureau chief in Frankfurt (1998-2002), Rome (2002-2007) and Brussels (2007-2010).

In 2012 Tony was awarded the Medal of Gratitude by the Solidarity Centre in Gdansk in recognition of his work in support of freedom and democracy in Poland in the 1980s.

He started his career in 1981 at Reuters news agency, serving as a foreign correspondent in New York, Washington and Chicago (1982-83), Vienna (1983), Warsaw (1984-85), Moscow (1985-87), Washington (State Department correspondent, 1987-88) and Belgrade (bureau chief, 1989).

He worked from 1990 to 1997 at The Independent in London, where he was successively East Europe Editor and Europe Editor.

Among the major world events on which he has reported on the ground are the 1986 Chernobyl accident, the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the fall of eastern European communism in 1989, the 1991-95 wars of the Yugoslav succession, the death of Pope John Paul II in 2005 and the eurozone crisis. 

He studied from 1978 to 1981 at St John’s College, Oxford University, where he received a BA First Class Honours degree in Modern History. He was born in 1960 in London.