Javier Espinoza Keynote Speaker

  • Europe Executive Editor of The Capital Forum
  • former Financial Times' EU Correspondent covering Competition, Digital and Financial Services Policy
  • Keynote Speaker and Moderator

Javier Espinoza's Biography

Javier Espinoza is the Europe Executive Editor of The Capital Forum, an investigative news organization providing subscribers with detail-oriented reporting on antitrust, merger control, corporate investigations, and sector regulation.    Previously, Javier was the Financial Times’ EU correspondent covering competition and digital and financial services policy from Brussels. Prior to that he was the paper’s private equity correspondent in London. He was part of the original group of reporters that formed the FT’s Due Diligence newsletter in 2017.

He was the Daily Telegraph’s education editor for two years prior to joining the Financial Times. Before joining the Telegraph in 2015, he was a multimedia reporter for the Wall Street Journal in London.

He worked previously at Forbes, the Observer and other UK and international outlets in London. He studied journalism at City University. He is also a Political Economist having completed a second Master’s degree at King’s College London. He also earned an executive MBA at IE Business School.

A British citizen, Javier is based in Belgium, and grew up in El Salvador and the USA.

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Javier Espinoza's Speaking Topics

  • Regulation and Digital Policy

  • Big Tech - Big Changes Ahead

  • Private equity, industry themes and key players

  • Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Media & journalism in Latin America, the UK and Brussels

  • Startups, venture capital and managing people in organisations

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Why Book Javier Espinoza as a speaker?

  • He sits at the centre of Europe’s regulatory and competition story as Europe Executive Editor at The Capitol Forum, giving leaders a real-time view of how antitrust, merger control and enforcement are reshaping corporate strategy.

  • He translates the EU policy machine into clear commercial implications, drawing on years in Brussels as the Financial Times’ EU correspondent covering competition, digital and financial services regulation.

  • He brings deal and capital markets fluency from his time as the FT’s private equity correspondent and a founding contributor to the Due Diligence newsletter, helping executives understand how scrutiny and politics are changing the rules of M&A.

  • He equips global organisations with sharper stakeholder awareness through a career spanning the FT, The Wall Street Journal and The Telegraph, helping audiences anticipate where headlines, regulators and public pressure will land next.

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