William Wright is the founder and managing director of New Financial, a think tank and forum that makes the case for bigger and better capital markets in Europe. New Financial believes Europe needs bigger and better capital markets – and that this represents a huge opportunity for the industry and its customers to embrace change and rethink how capital markets work.

He was one of the co-founders of Financial News in March 1996 and was Editor of the publication between 2004 and 2011, and worked closely on its acquisition by the Wall Street Journal in 2007.

He studied at Oxford and London universities and at INSEAD.