Journalist, author and adviser

Jonathan Guthrie is an award-winning journalist, writer and adviser. He contributes regular columns

to the Financial Times on a freelance basis: Financial Thinking, for private investors, savers and

consumers; and Nature Therapy, which aims to deepen appreciation of wild animals and plants.

He is a trustee of the Pensions Policy Institute, a leading research charity, and a member of  the

Oversight Group of the Church Commissioners’ reparatory initiative, the Healing, Repair and Justice

Fund. He also provides financial training and strategic analysis to corporate clients.

He worked full time at the FT from 1997 to 2024, latterly as associate editor and head of Lex, the

daily investment column. Before that he was the FT’s City Editor and wrote the irreverent daily

column Lombard. Other posts included UK Companies Editor and Personal Finance Writer.

Jonathan led three notable investigations into financial irregularities, two of which were followed by

the delisting of the FTSE100 businesses involved. He has won several awards including Campaigning

Journalist of the Year 2023 (WTW Awards) for columns on Ukraine and Outstanding Contribution to

Journalism 2023 (State Street Awards) for critiques of short selling and the taxation of private equity

executives. He created the FT’s award-winning Carbon Counter series quantifying household CO2

output and the newspaper’s daily City newsletter.

Earlier in his career Jonathan edited the magazines Pensions Management and Professional Investor,

wrote for International Financing Review and The Economist, and worked for the best part of a year

at a development project in rural India. He has a degree in English Literature from Nottingham

University. He is a freeman of the City of London.