Jonathan Eley, a retail correspondent at the Financial Times, has been named acting longform editor.

He has been at the FT for more than 22 years.

Previously, Eley contributed to Lex column, served as a personal finance editor, editor and online editor for Investor’s Chronicle. He was a Hong Kong correspondent at AFX Asia from January 1996 to March 1998, which at that time was jointly by Agence-France Presse, the Financial Times and Nikkei.

There, he covered general economic and corporate news, the handover of Hong Kong to China and the 1997 IMF/World Bank and G7 meetings.

He began his journalism career at the Metal Bulletin, UK-based group of trade publications, where he served as a North American editor. Eley has a BSc. from Aston University.

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