The Financial Times today announced four senior editorial appointments. Jonathan Ford has now started as the FT’s new chief leader writer, with overall responsibility for writing and commissioning the Financial Times’ editorials.

Reporting into editor Lionel Barber, Ford will oversee a team of four leader writers that together help set the tone of the FT. Ford joins the FT from Reuters and Breaking Views where he has been working since 2000. Before that he was an FT Lex columnist and a financial correspondent.

David Gardner, previously chief leader writer, will become the FT’s international affairs editor, based in London. Gardner replaces Quentin Peel, who will take the newly created post of chief correspondent in Germany, based in Berlin. Gerrit Wiesmann will move from Frankfurt to Berlin as Berlin correspondent.

Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, said: “I am delighted with these appointments which will strengthen our comment pages and our foreign coverage.”

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