Michael Acton won the Nico Colchester fellowship and joined the Financial Times’s Brussels office in September 2017. He has worked on a variety of subjects including defense and security, EU competition cases, fisheries policy, and EU party funding.

He has an MPhil in international relations and politics from the University of Cambridge, and a BA in History and French from University College London. Prior to joining the FT he worked as a policy analyst for Inline Policy, a political consultancy based in London and Brussels.