Richard Lambert

Richard Lambert is currently Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry. From June 2003 until March 2006, he was on the monetary policy committee of the Bank of England. Lambert was a columnist and commentator with a special interest in Europe, the Atlantic Alliance and globalization. He was editor-in-chief of the Financial Times from 1991 until the end of 2001. While remaining editor-in-chief of the newspaper, he relocated to New York in 1997–98 to launch the U.S. edition. Richard Lambert joined the FT after graduating from Oxford University. His other jobs included editor of the Lex investment column, New York bureau chief, financial editor and deputy editor. Since leaving the FT, he has been a columnist and lecturer. He is chairman of Visiting Arts, a non-profit agency which helps to bring international arts and arts managers to the UK and is a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He is UK chairman of the Franco-British colloque, a high-level group of industrialists and politicians from the two countries, and is a member of the International Advisory Board of British American Business, Inc. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters at the City University, London in 2000, and the following year he received the Prince of Wales’s Ambassador award for his work with business in the community. He has received a number of industry awards, including financial journalist of the year and national newspaper editor of the year, and in 2001 he received the decade of excellence award in the annual World Leadership Forum Business Journalist Awards. Mr. Lambert will examine the way Europe is being presented to the U.S. public through the media, and the way that the U.S. is being covered in parts of the European media.