Pi Lunch - John Plender of the Financial Times
Tuesday 18th November 1:00pm

John Plender has been a senior editorial writer and columnist at the Financial Times since 1981, an assignment he combined until recently with current affairs broadcasting for the BBC and Channel Four. He has a weekly column on economics and business on Mondays and also writes for the opinion pages. After taking his degree at Oxford University, John Plender joined Deloitte Plender Griffiths in the City of London in 1967, qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1970. He then moved into journalism, becoming financial editor of The Economist in 1974 where he remained until taking up a governmental appointment in the Foreign Office policy planning staff in 1980. John Plender was the winner of the Wincott Foundation senior prize for excellence in financial journalism in 1994. His books include That’s The Way The Money Goes (Andre Deutsch, 1982), The Square Mile, with Paul Wallace, (Hutchinson, 1984), A Stake In The Future (Nicholas Brealey, 1997) and Going Off The Rails - Global Capital And The Crisis Of Legitimacy (John Wiley, 2003)