Thorold Barker

Thorold Philip Walter Barker is a British financial journalist born on 14 August 1971. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge. His journalistic career gained international recognition in 2004 when he became editor of the Lex page at the Financial Times' New York bureau, where he produced investigative pieces on Wall Street as well as travel writing. In June 2008, he moved to the Wall Street Journal where he took over the Heard on the Street column. He assumed the editorship of the European edition of the Wall Street Journal in March 2013.