Anne-Sylvaine Chassany is the Financial Times' Berlin bureau chief, overseeing coverage of German politics. Prior to this role, she was the FT's companies editor, world news editor and Paris bureau chief. Before joining the FT in 2012, she worked for Bloomberg News and Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal in Paris and London, reporting on mergers and acquisitions and private equity.
A graduate of French business school HEC and a former analyst at Paribas's buyout unit in Paris and New York, she won the ‘OneToWatch’ award from The Work Foundation’s WorkWorld Media Awards in 2006 for ‘Heat builds on Mittal to improve safety and wages’ following a reporting trip to Kazakhstan. She is the co-author of ‘Enron, la faillite qui ébranla l’Amérique,’ published in 2003.