Janan Ganesh is a columnist and associate editor for the Financial Times. He was previously the Financial Times‘ US political columnist between 2018 and 2022, as well as a political correspondent for The Economist for five years.

Janan writes about international affairs, as well as the domestic politics of the US and the UK. During his time as US political columnist, he covered the 2020 US Presidential election, as well as the global pandemic, the worsening of US-China relations and the Capitol siege. As well as politics, his weekend column on culture and ideas covers such subjects as travel, cities, football, art, food, technology and social trends. The running theme of the column is a defence of globalism against its enemies.

Prior to becoming a journalist, Janan was a research fellow at Policy Exchange, the Westminster-based think tank on the political right set up by former Conservative ministers Nick Boles, Michael Gove and Francis Maude. In 2006, he co-authored the book Compassionate Conservatism: What It Is, Why We Need It, with current Shadow Leader of the House of Commons Jesse Norman, which received the T. E. Utley Memorial Prize for young journalists.