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Martin Wolf
British journalist (born 1946)
For other uses, see Martin Wolf (disambiguation).
Martin Harry WolfCBE (born 16 August[1] 1946 in London) is a British journalist who focuses on economics.
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He is the chief economics commentator at the Financial Times. [2] He also writes a weekly column for the French newspaper Le Monde.
Early life and education
Wolf was born in London, in 1946.
His father Edmund was an Austrian Jewish playwright who migrated from Vienna to England before World War II.[3] In London, Edmund met Wolf's mother, a Dutch Jew who had lost nearly thirty close relatives in the Holocaust.[4] Wolf recalls that his background left him wary of political extremes and encouraged his interest in economics, as he felt economic policy mistakes were one of the root causes of World War II.[3] He was an active supporter of the Labour Party until the early 1970s.[4]
Wolf was educated at University Colle