Caroline Daniel is a

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and editor of ''FT Weekend''. She was appointed in June 2010 after having spent three years running the ''

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'' comment and analysis pages. In March 2014 she was made consulting editor of FT Live. She is also an FT assistant editor.

Education and career

Daniel was educated at St. Helen's School in London and at

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, where she studied history. In 1998, Daniel won the

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to ''

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''. She joined the ''Financial Times'' in 1999. Before her appointment, she was a writer for the ''

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'' and ''

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'', and a researcher for

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, the UK

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. Between 2005 and 2007, she was the ''Financial Times

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correspondent, based in Washington D. C., during which time she was a regular panellist on ''

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'' and on

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show. Before moving to Chicago in May 2002, where she led the ''FT''s coverage of the US airline industry and Boeing, Daniel was based in London as Information Technology correspondent covering the IT boom and bust. She was research editor for the book "Values, Visions and Voices" (1995) by Gordon Brown and Tony Wright and has had essays published by the

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and

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. She is a member of the

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, Trustee of the

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and has a Financial Times Non-Executive Director Diploma.

External links

Biography at ''The McLaughlin Group''
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