Michael Peel is executive editor of Nikkei Asia, on secondment from the Financial Times.  

He has been an FT journalist for more than 25 years, including postings in Lagos, Abu Dhabi, Bangkok and Brussels. He is the author of The Fabulists: How Myth-makers Rule in an Age of Crisis and A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria’s Oil Frontier.