Mr. Martin Wolf is the chief economics commentator for the Financial Times. Educated at Corpus Christi College at Oxford University, he started out studying Classics before switching to Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. He went on to earn a Master of Philosophy degree in Economics from Oxford, but never pursued a Ph.D., stating he “didn’t want to become an academic.” In the late 1970s and early 80s, as a result of several misjudged attempts at intervention by the World Bank, where he worked as a senior economist, Mr. Wolf reconsidered many of his views in favor of the free market. However, when the financial crisis hit in 2007-2008, Mr. Wolf once again embraced some of the Keynesian positions he had been taught while growing up, eventually becoming, according to Julia Ioffe, “arguably the most widely trusted pundit” of the crisis. Mr. Wolf continues to be regarded as one of the most influential economic journalists in the world. Larry Summers called him, “the world’s preeminent financial journalist.” And Mohamed El-Erian agrees, once calling him “by far, the most influential economic columnist out there.” In 2000, he was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) “for services to financial journalism.”