Brooke Masters is the Financial Times's US financial editor, and an associate editor. She leads the team of reporters covering financial services in the world's financial capital and writes a business column. In 16 years at the FT, she has held a variety of editing, reporting and commentary roles in both New York and London. Among them were opinion and analysis editor, companies editor and chief regulation correspondent. She spent the first part of her career at the Washington Post covering criminal justice, local politics and education. She is also the author of Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer (Henry Holt, 2006).
