Martin Wolf is Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 "for services to financial journalism". Wolf is an honorary fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University, of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy (Oxonia) and of King’s College, London.
He is also an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham and a member of the Board of Governors of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, in Israel. He was a member of the UK government’s Independent Commission on Banking between June 2010 and September 2011.
In 2014, he was made a University Global Fellow of Columbia University, New York, and a Senior Fellow in Global Economic Policy at its School of International Public Affairs. He has been a forum fellow at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, since 1999 and is a member of its International Media Council.
His most recent publications are Why Globalization Works (Yale University Press, 2004), Fixing Global Finance (Washington D.C: Johns Hopkins University Press, and London: Yale University Press, 2008 and 2010) and The Shifts and The Shocks: What we’ve learned – and have still to learn – from the financial crisis (London and New York: Allen Lane, 2014). China Business News named Fixing Global Finance its "Financial Book of the Year" for 2009. Wolf was educated at Oxford University.
He was made a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, by Nottingham University in July 2006, a Doctor of Science (Economics) of London University, honoris causa, by the London School of Economics, in December 2006, a Doctor of Science, honoris causa, by Warwick University, in July 2009, a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, by Kingston University, in January 2010 and a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, by Macquarie University, in Australia, in 2012
Wolf was joint winner of the Wincott Foundation senior prize for excellence in financial journalism for 1989 and 1997. He won the RTZ David Watt memorial prize for 1994, granted annually "to a writer judged to have made an outstanding contribution in the English language towards the clarification of national, international and political issues and the promotion of their greater understanding".
He won the "Accenture Decade of Excellence" at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards of 2003. He won the Newspaper Feature of the Year Award at the Workworld Media Awards 2003. On 1st December 2005 he was given First Magazine’s "Special Advocacy Award" at its annual "Award for Responsible Capitalism".
In January 2008, Wolf won the AMEC Lifetime achievement Award at the Workworld Media Awards for 2007. He won the "Commentator of the Year" award at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards of 2008. He was also placed among the world’s 100 leading public policy intellectuals by the British magazine Prospect and the US magazine, Foreign Policy in May 2008. He was placed 15th in Foreign Policy’s list of the "Top 100 Global Thinkers" in December 2009, 37th in the same list for 2010 and 55th for 2011.
He won the "Ludwig-Erhard-Preis für Wirtschaftspublizistik" ("Ludwig Erhard Prize for economic commentary") from the Ludwig Erhard Stiftung (Foundation) for 2009. He won "Commentariat of the Year 2009" at the Comment Awards, sponsored by Editorial Intelligence. He won the Hans Mőller Medaille for 2009, awarded by the Münchner Volkswirte Alumni Club. He was joint winner of the 2009 award for columns in "giant newspapers" at the 15th annual Best in Business Journalism competition of The Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
Wolf won the 33rd Ischia International Journalism Prize in 2012. He won the James Cameron Memorial Award for 2012. He was given a distinguished honorary fellowship by the European International Business Academy in 2012. He won the Overseas Press Club of America’s prize for "best commentary on international news in any medium" for 2013. He won "Journalist of the Year" at the Green Ribbon Political Awards 2014.