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Keith Fray heads the editorial statistics team, who source and visualise data on any subject that the FT might cover, and who also write data-related stories.

In over 25 years at the FT he has helped develop data visualisation into a core part of our journalism, convincing sceptical wordsmiths – and hopefully readers – that a well-judged chart is indeed worth a thousand words.

His background is in economics, studying at Birkbeck College, London, in the days before the academic subject became dominated by mathematical modelling.

He is also co-deputy chair of the FT Group chapel of the National Union of Journalists.

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