Chris Giles has been the economics editor of the Financial Times since 2004. Based in London, he writes about international economic trends and the British economy. Before reporting economics for the Financial Times, he wrote editorials for the paper, reported for the BBC, worked as a regulator of the broadcasting industry and undertook research for the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Krishna Guha, US economics editor and deputy Washington bureau chief, is the FT's chief Fed-watcher. He leads coverage of the US economy, the IMF and the World Bank, writing on the global economy for 15 years. Educated at Cambridge and Harvard, Krishna was a Fulbright and CV Starr scholar. He has worked as an FT economics editorial writer and Lex columnist.

Ralph Atkins, Frankfurt bureau chief, has been writing about European economics and politics for the Financial Times for more than 20 years following an economics degree from Cambridge. He has been watching the European Central Bank and eurozone economies since 2004. He has previously worked in London, Bonn, Berlin, Jerusalem and Brussels.

Mure Dickie, the FT's Tokyo bureau chief, has spent most of the past two decades in East Asia. A speaker of Chinese and Japanese, he joined the FT as Taipei correspondent in 1998 and was Beijing correspondent from 2003 to 2008. Before that he was a journalist and editor for Reuters news agency in Beijing and Tokyo.

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