Richard Waters is the West Coast Editor for the Financial Times. His beat covers the technology industry. Before moving to the West Coast, Waters was based in the FT’s New York office for nine years. His roles there included Wall Street reporter, New York bureau chief, and the FT’s first information industries editor, overseeing global coverage of technology, telecommunications and media. Waters previously worked at the FT in London where he held a number of positions, including editor of interna- tional capital markets, securities industry correspondent and accountancy and taxation correspondent.
In 2004, Waters was awarded Corporate Finance Reporter of the year for his coverage of Google’s IPO. Waters was shortlisted for the Business & Finance Reporter of the Year award at the British Press Awards in 2003 and won the award in 1992 as part of a team covering the BCCI scandal. In 1988, Waters was named Accoun- tancy Journalist of the Year.
Waters appears regularly on the BBC, CNBC, MSNBC, CNNfn and NPR.
Waters received his Bachelor’s degree from St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University.