Peter Aspden is the Financial Times’ arts writer, with a weekly column in FT Weekend’s Life & Arts section. He writes on a variety of subjects including most art forms, travel, religion, politics, history - and sport (he covered the Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996, and the World Cup in France in 1998).

As arts writer, he has covered most of the world’s most important cultural events and interviewed many leading figures in the arts such as Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Peter Sellars, David Byrne, John Cale, and many others. In 2010 he was nominated in the best cultural commentator category in the Editorial Intelligence awards.

Prior to this role, Aspden spent five years as the FT’s arts editor. He joined the FT in 1994 as deputy books and arts editor and a general feature writer on FT Weekend.

Aspden was born in London in 1958, but spent much of his childhood in his mother’s homeland Greece. He was educated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics, before going into journalism. He joined the Times Higher Education Supplement in 1985, where he went on to become deputy editor.