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Jonathan Guthrie
Jonathan Guthrie (born 24 July 1964) is a British journalist. He is the head of Lex, a daily column on global investment, and an associate editor of The Financial Times.

Early life
He was born in Leicester and grew up in Aberdeen and Manchester. His father David was a professor and head of the Zoology Department of Manchester University. His mother Marjorie Webb was a biology lecturer and secondary school teacher.

His grandmother Kathleen Guthrie was an artist and author of children's books. Her first husband was the portraitist Robin Guthrie. Her second husband, Cecil Stephenson, was an abstract painter whose associates included Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth.

After school, Jonathan Guthrie worked as a development volunteer in rural India before obtaining a degree in English and Art History from Nottingham University.

Career
He worked for International Financing Review and The Economist before joining the Financial Times Group as a magazine editor in 1993. He became a reporter on the Financial Times in 1997 and a weekly columnist in 2003. He has written numerous columns since then, mainly on business and finance. Nature Therapy, his column on wild animals and plants, has appeared in the House & Home section of the FT since January 2021.

Previous job titles have included UK companies editor, Midlands correspondent, enterprise editor and City editor.

As a reporter, he led FT investigations into British Biotech, Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (with Caroline Binham) and the so-called “Gem of Tanzania” accounting scandal.

He is a freeman of the City of London.

Personal life
He is married with two adult children and lives in South London.