Ian Davidson
Ian Davidson graduated in Classics and English from Cambridge and joined the Financial Times in 1960. Reporting on European and international news, he was Brussels and Paris correspondent in the 1960s, and again Paris correspondent in the late 1980s, and the main Foreign Affairs columnist for the FT during much of his career. He is also the author of The Gold War (with Gordon Weil) and Britain and the Making of Europe. Voltaire in Exile was pubilshed in 2004.