David Goodhart

David Goodhart is the Editor of Prospect magazine, launched in 1995. He was formerly a senior correspondent of the Financial Times.

Background

From his Comment is Free profile:

He was born in 1956 and educated at Eton (1969-1974) and York University (1976-79, first in history and politics). He worked on the Yorkshire Evening Press (1979-1982) then the Financial Times (1982-1994) as a labour correspondent, city reporter, Lex columnist, Germany correspondent and employment editor.He is married to FT columnist and author Lucy Kellaway; they have four children and live in north London.

Affiliations

• Social Market Foundation
• Ditchley Foundation, member
• Centre for Social Cohesion
• Quilliam Foundation advisor

Publications

• Eddie Shah and the Newspaper Revolution (with Patrick Wintour)(Coronet, 1986)
• Making the City Work (with Charles Grant)(Fabian pamphlet, 1987)
• The Reshaping of the German Social Market (IPPR pamphlet, 1994)
• Thinking Allowed, The Best of Prospect Magazine 1995-2005, edited

and with an introduction by David Goodhart (Atlantic Books, 2005)