John Paul Rathbone

Latin America Editor, Financial Times

John Paul Rathbone is the Latin America editor at the Financial Times, and author of the New York Times-bestseller The Sugar King of Havana: The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon (Penguin Press, 2010). He joined the Financial Times in 2008, as deputy editor of the Lex column. A graduate of Oxford and Columbia Universities, he has worked as a journalist throughout the Americas, and also as a brief stint as an economist at the World Bank.