Peter Thal Larsen is a Dutch journalist. Thal Larsen graduated from

Bristol University , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

before going on to the

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. He began working for the ''

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'' in 1999 and moved to the paper's

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office the following year, first as a financial correspondent and then U.S. communications editor. He returned to

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in 2004 to become banking editor, leading the paper's coverage of the financial crisis and the

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. In 2009, he departed to become

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' European comment editor, reporting to Jonathan Ford. Following Reuters' acquisition of

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later that year he became assistant editor of Reuters Breakingviews. In 2012, he moved to

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to take up a new position within Reuters as the Asia editor for Breakingviews. Thal Larsen was one of a number of senior financial journalists who reported on the effects of the financial crisis on

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, and was interviewed by Ian Fraser for a 2011

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documentary on the topic.

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