Michael Stott
Managing Editor, Nikkei Asian Review
Michael Stott is an executive editor at the Financial Times. Currently on assignment to the Nikkei Asian Review in Tokyo as Managing Editor, Mr. Stott was previously the FT's Investigations Editor and also served as the FT’s UK News Editor directing political, diplomatic and business coverage of Britain's referendum campaign on EU membership and Scotland’s historic vote on independence.
During a long international news career, he has reported from over 70 countries and interviewed many world leaders and top CEOs. After graduating in Modern Languages from Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, Mr. Stott began his professional life at Reuters, where he was assigned as a correspondent to Germany and helped to cover Ronald Reagan’s visit to West Berlin and the events preceding the collapse of the Berlin Wall. He then worked as a correspondent in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and later as bureau chief in Colombia covering the killing of cocaine king Pablo Escobar and the rise of the Marxist guerrillas, Mexico reporting on the collapse of the peso, the US bailout and the Chiapas uprising and Russia, where he led coverage of the war between Georgia and Russia and the presidential election which saw Vladimir Putin alternate in power with Dmitry Medvedev.
