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Wolfgang Münchau is considered one of the world’s foremost experts on the eurozone. He writes the European economic column of the Financial Times. His latest book, The Meltdown Years : The Unfolding of the Global Economic Crisis, won the prestigious GetAbstract business book award in its original German-language version, Vorbeben. He is the recipient of the 2012 SABEW award for best international columnist. Wolfgang is a co-founder and president of Eurointelligence ASBL. He is also an associate editor of the Financial Times, where he writes a weekly column about European economics.
Together with his wife, the economist Susanne Mundschenk, he co-founded Eurointelligence.com, a website dedicated to providing information and debate about the economics, finance and politics of the eurozone. The Eurointelligence Daily Morning Newsbriefing is widely considered to be most incisive daily information source on the Eurozone.
He was one of the founders of Financial Times Deutschland, the Germany financial daily, and the paper’s editor-in-chief between 2001-2003. Prior to this, he held several posts at a foreign correspondent for the Financial Times and the Times of London.
In 1989 he was a recipient of the Wincott Young Financial Journalist of the Year award. He holds the degrees of Diplom-Mathematiker (Hagen), Diplom-Betriebswirt (Reutlingen) and M.A. in International Journalism (City University, London).
Wolfgang is an expert commentator on the issue of sovereign debt and government bonds and on the on-going financial and banking implications of Brexit for both the United Kingdom and the European Union.
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