Martin Wolf is associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 for services to financial journalism. He is a visiting fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University, and a special professor at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.

Mr Wolf was joint winner of the Wincott Foundation senior prize for excellence in financial journalism in both 1989 and 1997 and won the RTZ David Watt memorial prize in 1994. He was the winner in the United Kingdom of the 2003 Business Journalist of the Year Decade of Excellence Award and won the Newspaper Feature of the Year Award at the Workworld Media Awards in 2003. He has been a forum fellow at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum since 1999.

Martin Wolf obtained the Master of Philosophy in economics from Oxford University in 1971. Following that he joined the World Bank, where he became a senior economist in 1974. In 1981 he became director of studies at the Trade Policy Research Centre in London. He joined the Financial Times in 1987 as chief economics leader writer and became chief economics commentator in 1996.

Mr Wolf is the author of the book Why Globalization Works: The Case for the Global Market Economy published by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, in 2004.