About Alec Russell
Alec Russell was an English and British journalist.
Alec Russell is an English journalist. he is foreign editor of the Financial Times.
Career Russell was analysis editor and world news editor of the Financial Times, before being appointed editor of FT Weekend effective April 2016.
In November 2022 it was announced that Russell would assume the new role of foreign editor effective March 2023. he is still in this position.
Recognition He was nominated for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and for British foreign correspondent of the year.
Books Russell has written three books: Prejudice and Plum Brandy, about his time in the Balkans; Big Men, Little Men, a reflection on his time in South Africa in the mid-90s; and After Mandela, about South Africa under Thabo Mbeki.
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