John Authers

Journalist Authers joined the Financial Times in 1990, where he would stay for over twenty-nine years, holding various positions such as US markets editor, Mexico City bureau chief, US banking correspondent, personal finance correspondent, education and local government correspondent, and ‘On Wall Street’ columnist. In 2010, he was made global head of the Lex Column in the FT, and by 2018, he was Chief Markets Commentator. In 2018, Authers left the FT and joined Bloomberg News as Senior Markets Editor.

Authers has been interviewed on financial events by other national media outlets including NPR, BBC News, and the New York Times.

Author In 2003, he co-authored with Richard Wolffe The Victim's Fortune: Inside the Epic Battle Over the Debts of the Holocaust, which American diplomat Philip H. Gordon writing in Foreign Affairs described as a book that "... turned an important, depressing, and intensely technical subject – the negotiations over how to repay Holocaust-era debts – into a gripping tale replete with deserving victims, grandstanding politicians, greedy class-action lawyers, and tightfisted European bankers". The book won the Knight-Bagehot award from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

In 2010, Authers published The Fearful Rise of Markets: A Short View of Global Bubbles and Synchronised Meltdowns, which explained why increasing central bank control over financial markets – to generate economic growth via asset price inflation, and protect asset via the Greenspan put – had led to artificially high levels of price correlation. It made the FT's list of business books of the year for 2010.

Awards Society of American Business Editors and Writers "Best in Business" award (2008, and 2010).

Published works

Personal Authers is married to financial journalist, Sara Silver, with whom he has three children; they live in New York. Authers and Silver have collaborated on pieces together.

Authers is also a classical singer and has performed in Carnegie Hall, and in choirs for singers such as Cecilia Bartoli and Luciano Pavarotti.