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    Anne-Sylvaine Chassany

    Companies Editor

    Anne-Sylvaine Chassany is the Financial Times' companies editor, overseeing coverage of business news globally. Prior to this role, she was the FT’s world news editor, the FT's Paris bureau chief and the FT's global private equity correspondent. Before joining the FT in 2012, she worked for Bloomberg News and Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal in Paris and London, reporting on mergers and acquisitions, energy and European financial institutions.

    A graduate of French business school HEC and a former analyst at Paribas's buyout unit in Paris and New York, she won the ‘OneToWatch’ award from The Work Foundation’s WorkWorld Media Awards in 2006 for ‘Heat builds on Mittal to improve safety and wages’ following a reporting trip to Kazakhstan. She is the co-author of ‘Enron, la faillite qui ébranla l’Amérique,’ published in 2003.

    Email Anne-Sylvaine Chassany @chassnews  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)

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    • Sunday, 30 January, 2022
      Global InsightEU foreign policy
      Britain’s activism in Ukraine crisis rattles Paris and Berlin

      French and German officials wary that London’s assertive foreign policy could reopen splits from the Iraq war

    • Wednesday, 15 December, 2021
      French politics
      French look on in envy at Germany’s grown-up politics

      As France’s presidential campaign turns toxic, Berlin offers a consensual alternative

      German Chancellor Olaf Scholz gives a bouquet of flowers to his predecessor Angela Merkel, whose understated exit has mesmerised the French
    • Tuesday, 7 December, 2021
      InterviewFT Books Essay
      Goncourt winner Mohamed Mbougar Sarr: ‘French is my language too’

      His novel won France’s leading literary prize — yet it confronts head-on an establishment struggling to shake off colonial attitudes

    • Wednesday, 12 May, 2021
      Special ReportInvesting in Canada
      Team Canada ‘will come roaring back’

      Canada’s ‘minister of everything’ is pinning her hopes on a consumer-led rebound from Covid-19 setbacks

    • Wednesday, 28 April, 2021
      InterviewGlobal trade
      Biden’s global tax plan ‘breakthrough moment’, Canada’s Freeland says

      Finance minister emphasises that US administration is ‘very collaborative’ on vaccines

      Chrystia Freeland
    • Saturday, 3 April, 2021
      Covid-19 vaccines
      Vaccine dispute revives mutual mistrust across the Channel

      Relations between the UK and France have been bad — and are getting worse — since Brexit

      French President Emmanuel Macron is greeted by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson outside 10 Downing Street last year. Relations have deteriorated as the UK and EU vie for control of vaccine supply
    • Wednesday, 10 February, 2021
      Coronavirus treatment
      The west should pay attention to Russia and China’s vaccine diplomacy

      Beijing and Moscow are using jabs to court poorer nations — but the EU and US are barely noticing

    • Thursday, 10 December, 2020
      French politics
      ‘Generation VGE’ owe a debt to a reformer French president

      A cohort that includes Emmanuel Macron can learn lessons from the presidency of Valéry Giscard d’Estaing

      ‘Valéry Giscard d’Estaing blessed me with his presidential touch on June 9, 1978, when he visited my Corsican maternal village’
    • Wednesday, 30 September, 2020
      French politics
      Macron’s rapprochement with Putin is not worth it

      French president’s ‘trust-building’ with Russian leader has failed

      Emmanuel Macron (R), with Vladimir Putin, at the presidential Riviera retreat of Bregancon last year
    • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
      Annie Ernaux, the grande dame of autofiction — winner of the Nobel Prize in literature
      Annie Ernaux: ‘I never feel legitimate, yet I persevere’

      The auto-fiction writer on the thrill of #MeToo after a lifetime fighting male dominance in French literature

    • Thursday, 16 April, 2020
      France
      French public feels lied to as lockdown fatigue grows

      Controversy over face masks erodes trust in Emmanuel Macron’s government

      Former French Minister Roselyne Bachelot arrives at Saint Sulpice church in Paris, Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. Past and current heads of states are gathering in Paris to pay tribute to former French president Jacques Chirac. A private family church service for Chirac, who died last week at the age of 86, is taking place Monday. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
    • Monday, 9 March, 2020
      ReviewBooks
      Le Consentement, by Vanessa Springora

      A memoir exposing how the author as a 14-year-old was abused by a man 36 years her senior

      (FILES) This file photo taken on July 12, 1990, shows French writer Gabriel Matzneff posing in the garden of the "House of Writers" (Maison des Ecrivains) in Paris, as they attend the first anniversary of the Chinese House of Democracy (Maison Chinoise de la Democratie). - The new head of the Juillard publishing house Vanessa Springora releases an autobiographical book on January 2, 2020, entitled "Le Consentement" (The Consent), in which she describes being seduced at 14-years-old by the nearly 50-year-old writer, whom she calls G., in the mid-1980s. (Photo by Pierre GUILLAUD / AFP) (Photo by PIERRE GUILLAUD/AFP via Getty Images)
    • Friday, 10 January, 2020
      Long Story Short
      A selection of the FT’s biggest stories and best reads every Friday

      Anne-Sylvaine Chassany’s top reads this week: Ghosn’s great escape; Soleimani’s successor; (not) Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

    • Sunday, 15 December, 2019
      World6 min
      Brexit focus after UK election, Japan rates, Putin interview, cannabis earnings

      Josh de la Mare on some of the big stories the FT is watching this week

    • Sunday, 8 December, 2019
      World5 min
      Ukraine talks, UK poll, Myanmar leader in court, Dixons results

      FT's Veronica Kan-Dapaah previews some of the big stories the Financial Times is watching this week

    • Sunday, 17 November, 2019
      UK general election: Battleground dispatches
      Scottish nationalists set to squeeze Tories at election

      SNP looks to benefit from Conservative disaffection with Johnson north of the border

      12/11/2019  Anne-Sylvaine Chaussney in Stirling for the General Election.     a statue of Robert the Bruce in Stirling castle.
    • Friday, 8 November, 2019
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Disturbance: Surviving Charlie Hebdo — a recollection of terror

      Philippe Lançon’s harrowing memoir of surviving the Paris terrorist attack

      PARIS, FRANCE - JANUARY 07: Ambulances and police officers gather in front of the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on January 7, 2015 in Paris, France. Armed gunmen stormed the offices leaving twelve dead, including two police officers, according to French officials. (Photo by Antoine Antoniol/Getty Images)
    • Wednesday, 23 October, 2019
      Venezuela
      US claims Rosneft ‘central’ to survival of Venezuela’s Maduro

      Russian state-controlled company plays key role in helping regime through oil trade and financing

      Venezuela has the world’s biggest reserves of crude oil but production has dropped after years of mismanagement
    • Monday, 21 October, 2019
      French politics
      French veil debate uncovers schism on religious symbols

      Controversy over mother who wore hijab on a school field trip prompts row

      LE PANIER, MARSEILLE, BOUCHES-DU-RHôNE, PROVENCE-ALPES-CôTE D'AZUR, FRANCE - 2016/09/02: Muslim woman wearing niqab walking on street pushing baby cart. (Photo by Raquel Maria Carbonell Pagola/LightRocket via Getty Images)
    • Thursday, 17 October, 2019
      Brexit6 min
      Can Brexit breakthrough really bring resolution?

      FT's Miranda Green and Anne-Sylvaine Chassany discuss the new deal

    • Friday, 9 August, 2019
      Long Story Short
      A selection of the FT’s biggest stories and best reads every Friday

      Anne-Sylvaine Chassany’s top reads this week: Jammu and Kashmir tensions; a stronger dollar; gender-neutral grammar

    • Monday, 29 July, 2019
      ReviewBooks
      La Longue Nuit Syrienne: Dix Années de Diplomatie Impuissante, by Michel Duclos

      A diplomat’s portrait of a civil war with echoes of the 1930s

      A Syrian child walks with a national flag with other civilians evacuated from the Eastern Ghouta enclave, as they pass with belongings through the regime-controlled corridor opened by government forces in Hawsh al-Ashaari, east of the enclave town of Hamouria on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on March 15, 2018. Thousands escaped Syria's rebel-held Eastern Ghouta into government-held territory AFP correspondents on both sides said, the largest numbers since the regime assault on the enclave began. / AFP PHOTO / LOUAI BESHARALOUAI BESHARA/AFP/Getty Images
    • Wednesday, 17 July, 2019
      World2 min
      The task ahead for Ursula von der Leyen

      The FT's Anne-Sylvaine Chassany analyses the challenge faced by the new European Commission president

    • Tuesday, 9 July, 2019
      Christine Lagarde
      Christine Lagarde shows how to deal with imposter syndrome

      She may not be the best qualified candidate for ECB chief, but she is not there by chance

      (FILES) In this file photo taken on June 13, 2019 International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing Director Christine Lagarde smiles during a press conference during an Eurogroup meeting at the EU headquarters in Luxembourg. - Christine Lagarde was appointed European Central Bank chief on July 2, 2019. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP)JOHN THYS/AFP/Getty Images
    • Thursday, 16 May, 2019
      World Weekly podcast13 min listen
      The fraying transatlantic alliance

      Anne Sylvaine-Chassany discusses the sharp deterioration in relations between Europe…

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