Michael Stott is the Latin America editor of the Financial Times based in London. He was previously in Tokyo as managing editor of the Nikkei Asian Review, a sister publication covering Asian business and politics. Prior to that Stott was the FT's UK news editor. He reported from Latin America between 1990-1998, living in Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. Formerly Moscow bureau chief and editor, Europe, Middle East and Africa at Reuters, Stott joined the FT in 2014. He graduated from Cambridge University with an MA in Modern Languages and speaks fluent Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Russian.