Senior Financial Times editor joins BCG as first Editor-in-Chief

In this new role, Targett will oversee all of BCG’s editorial activities, including the development of its portfolio of publications—both print and online. Based in London, he will also oversee BCG’s global media relations.

Targett said, “I’m delighted to be joining BCG, which is one of the world’s great management consultancies. Ever since the days of its founder, Bruce Henderson, BCG has been associated with innovative and high-impact thinking and writing. I am looking forward to building on some very firm publishing foundations.”

During the 12 years before he joined BCG, Targett worked at the Financial Times in a broad range of roles, including investment correspondent, FTfm editor, features editor, FT.com editor and, most recently, associate editor and editor of supplements and special reports.

While he was at the FT, Targett won several awards for investigative reporting and commentary, and was joint winner in the insurance category of the 2002 Business Journalist of the Year Awards of the World Leadership Forum (WLF) for an investigation into the Equitable Life scandal. He also launched several supplements, including FTfm, FT Wealth, FT Corporate Finance, and the FT Business of Sport magazine

Targett has served as a judge for the British Press Awards, WLF’s Business Journalist of the Year Awards, and British Venture Capital Association’s Private Equity and Venture Capital Journalist of the Year Awards.

Targett completed a PhD in eighteenth century British political history at the University of Cambridge before training to be a journalist at City University London’s Graduate School of Journalism.