Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson Keynote Speaker

Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson is the CEO Editor of Semafor and author of The CEO Signal, a weekly newsletter featuring interviews with top business leaders and candid, practical insights tailored for executives seeking actionable intelligence.  The newsletter is available only to the chief executives of the world’s largest companies, while Andrew’s online CEO interviews reach a wide global audience and he is also closely involved with Semafor’s live events. 

Prior to this role, Andrew spent 27 years at the Financial Times, including two periods as US News Editor, steering the FT’s award-winning coverage of US politics, business, technology, markets and economics while helping shape a pioneering and impactful multimedia newsroom.

For five years as the FT’s US Business Editor, he led coverage of how boardrooms were navigating an age of growing populism, policy upheavals and shifting expectations of corporate America. He is known as a leading voice on how sustainability, stakeholder capitalism and debates about the place of corporations in society are changing and challenging today’s business landscape.

He also helped develop new offerings for the FT’s core business audience such as Moral Money, its highly-regarded newsletter on sustainable business and finance. In his reporting and commentary, Andrew charted the emergence of a new movement of purpose-driven executives, and the pushback from those worried about corporate overreach, greenwashing and “woke capitalism”.

An experienced moderator and speaker, he is a regular contributor to panel discussions, podcasts, and TV and radio broadcasts.

From 2005 to 2013, he was the FT’s global media editor, leading its coverage of stories from the Murdochs to the music business. In 24 years with the FT in New York and London, Andrew also served as deputy news editor, edited its management features section, covered M&A and US consumer industries, and wrote for the influential Lex column.

A graduate of Cambridge University, he started his career at the Daily Telegraph in London and won the Newsbios “30 under 30” award for young financial journalists in 2000 and 2001. He is based in New York.