JO JOHNSON is thirty and has a first from Balliol College, Oxford. After working on the Financial Times Lex Column from 1997 to 1999, he went to INSEAD, where he earned an MBA. He is currently Paris correspondent for the Financial Times.
MARTINE ORANGE, forty-four, is a renowned journalist on Le Monde. Based in Paris, she has written extensively about French business and finance for the newspaper for eight years.