John Gapper

A respected journalist for the Financial Times, John Gapper brings fascinating insights into the methods, motivations, and madness behind the high-finance, risk-taking cultures of New York's Wall Street and London's City.

John has made a specialty of covering financial crises, financial malfeasance, and fraudsters like Bernie Madoff. In his widely-read articles and opinion pieces, he covers and comments upon business events with a unique global perspective. His work includes insightful interviews with moguls like Howard Schultz, and colorful, freewheeling takes on newsmakers like Rupert Murdoch, Lloyd Blankfein, and Mark Zuckerberg.

John is the author of the "The Ghost Shift," an ebook titled, "How to be a Rogue Trader" and co-author (with Nick Denton) of "All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings," the definitive account of the collapse of Barings, London's oldest merchant bank, including infamous rogue trader Nick Leeson.

His explorations of the underbelly of the financial world have led him to write a financial novel titled "A Fatal Debt." He has written extensively and speaks about the media and high-tech industries, the troubles of the US auto industry; the future of digital news and entertainment; innovation and venture capital; corporate PR crises such as the BP oil spill.

John writes occasionally for New York magazine as well as in the Financial Times, and he also co-writes the FT's widely-followed business blog.

John is an experienced panel moderator running sessions on a wide variety of financial and business topics. He makes regular appearances on television and radio, including on the BBC, CNBC and CNN.