John Paul Rathbone

About

John Paul Rathbone is the Turkey bureau chief of the Financial Times. He was previously security & defence correspondent, Latin America editor; Tokyo-based business and markets editor at Nikkei Asia, a sister publication that covers Asian business and politics; and deputy editor of the Lex column. Author of the 2010 New York Times best-seller “The Sugar King of Havana: the rise and fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba’s last tycoon”, he joined the FT in 2008. https://www.ft.com/john-paul-rathbone

Experience

• Financial Times (6 yrs 6 mos)
  • Turkey bureau chief, Financial Times
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Security & defence correspondent
    Jan 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

  • Executive opinion editor,
    Jan 2020 - Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Business and markets editor at Nikkei Asian Review
  Sep 2019 - Feb 2020 · 6 mos

• Latin America editor at The Financial Times
  Jul 2008 - Apr 2019 · 10 yrs 10 mos