John Authers is Investment editor at the Financial Times and will soon be taking up the post of Lex editor. He is the Financial Times’ principal commentator on markets and investments, responsible for the daily Short View and weekly Long View columns. In previous posts, he has been US markets editor, US banking correspondent and Mexico City bureau chief.  His publication, The Victim’s Fortune—Inside the Epic Battle Over the Debts of the Holocaust, is co-authored with Richard Wolffe. Authers is an avid singer and has sung in the backing chorus for Pavarotti and Cecilia Bartoli with the Philharmonic Chorus in London. As a trivia buff, Authers led the highest-scoring team in the history of the British TV quiz show University Challenge.