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    John Foster

    John Foster

    Editor Writer Journalist

    London, United Kingdom

    John Foster is currently self-employed and working as a senior reporter on the TMT team of the Press Association in London. Prior to this he was managing editor of International...Read moreJohn Foster is currently self-employed and working as a senior reporter on the TMT team of the Press Association in London.
    Prior to this he was managing editor of International Media Ventures in Dubai. IMV published Trader Middle East, Dealmaker and Private Air Middle East in partnership with DoubleDown Media in New York. DoubleDown Media went into bankruptcy early in 2009. IMV suspended publishing in April 2009. Both were a result of the global financial crisis.
    John was launch editor of the above three titles and managed a team of six, across editorial, sales and administration.
    Dealmaker was the only remaining magazine in the MENA region that was devoted to private equity, venture capital and investment banking. Trader concentrated on the nascent proprietary trading industry in the MENA region and covered FX, commodity and equity trading and hedge funds in the Middle East. Private Air was the only magazine in the region that looked at the growth and development of the private aviation industry, highlighting new models, new operators and new fixed operation bases across the region. There was a very strong lifestyle component to all three titles.
    Prior to joining IMV, John was managing editor of CPI Financial, and editor of Banker Middle East, Banker Arabic, Islamic Business & Finance, Private Equity & Hedge Funds magazines. He was also editor of CPIFinancial.net.
    John managed a team of five editorial staff, redesigned all of the magazines, launched Banker Arabic and CPIFinancial.net, and developed an online, real-time news service for CPI Financial.
    Before moving to the Middle East, John was with the Financial Times in London. He was features editor and acting editor of Investment Adviser, a weekly newspaper published by the FT Group on retail UK investment. John was pivotal in the magazine’s redesign and in the deployment of its returns-based style analysis investment methodology. John was exposed to all aspects of news, features, subbing and design and in the absence of the editor managed a team of 12 journalists in news, features and production.
    Prior to 2004, John worked in the City of London, first as an investment consultant for a pensions actuary, then in marketing and product development for an asset manager and most recently as an independent investment consultant to life offices and asset managers. John has worked on a number of high profile projects, including the conversion of a life company’s assets to stock-market linked actively-managed defined contribution funds; the development of a open architecture matrix for an asset manager; the creation of a suite of socially-responsible investment funds and the establishment of a friendly society embedded within a trade union in the People’s Republic of China.

    John has a Bachelor’s degree in History, a Master’s Degree in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and has sat his Investment Management Certificate (IMC) as well as taken a number of courses on journalism, management and public speaking. John regularly appears on television and radio and in the international press. He regularly provides analysis on economic events for Al Jazeera and the BBC.

    John is a solid professional with excellent personal and communication skills. He has worked across both the media and the financial services industries and has international exposure. He understands all aspects of the media as well as having extensive knowledge of private equity, venture capital, investment banking, fund management, socially responsible investment and Islamic finance.


    Area Covered: UK
    Work Experience Summary: Editor of a number of magazines and websites both in the UK and overseas.
    Worked in the City of London in an asset management function before becoming a journalist.
    Education Summary: BPP, NUJ & Bishopsgate Institute

    - Taken Investment Management Certificate
    - Taken Intensive Public Speaking Course
    - Taken an Introduction to Quark X-Press

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