张力奋 Lifen Zhang

2003年，张力奋加盟FT，出任创刊总编辑。之前曾在英国广播公司(BBC)工作10余年，历任资深记者、资深制作人、新闻与节目制作资深培训师、中文台新闻时事主编。其间，曾获BBC奥纳西斯旅行奖。其作品还曾获中国国家级报告文学奖项。

毕业于上海复旦大学新闻系, 并留校短期执教。后获中英友好奖学金赴英国深造, 获Leicester大学传播学博士，媒介社会学是其主要研究兴趣。他关注新闻传播教育，曾任台湾政治大学新闻系访问专家/教授，香港浸会大学新闻系客座教授 、国际学术顾问。

他还是伦敦英中协会(Great Britain China Centre)执行委员会理事。经常应邀为国际和中国主流媒体评论中国政经与社会公共议题。

著有《世纪末的流浪》（合著）等。

Dr Lifen Zhang is The Associate Editor at Financial Times and Editor-in-Chief for FTChinese.com (FT's Chinese language website). He is also Founding Editor for FTRui (FT's Chinese language lifestyle and wealth management magazine).

Before joining the FT in 2003 to launch FTChinese.com, Lifen worked for 10 years as assistant producer for BBC TV, producer, senior producer, news/current affairs editor and senior journalism-production trainer for BBC World Service.

He has received various journalism awards including China’s National Reportage Prize in 1988 and the BBC Onassis Travel Award in 2001. His first book, Wondering By the End of Century (shi-ji-mo-de-liu-lang, co-authored) was published in 1988.

Born in Shanghai, Lifen received his BA degree in Journalism (1984) at Fudan University, Shanghai, where he had also taught for 4 years upon graduation. He obtained his PhD in Communications (1994) with particular interest in media sociology at University of Leicester, England.

He was visiting scholar/visiting professor in Journalism at the National Chengchi University in Taipei and Hong Kong Baptist University in Hong Kong.

He currently sits on the International Advisory Committee for the Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University, and is also member of the Executive Committee for the Great Britain-China Centre (GBCC), based in London.

He was listed among the “50 Most Powerful Persons in China's Economic Life” in 2009 by China's Asia Business Leaders magazine.