A NEW EDITOR FOR FINANCIAL DIRECTOR

FD is growing fast - watch this space!

There couldn't really be a better time to take over as editor of Financial Director. By coincidence, the final issue our esteemed editor Sawers will put to bed (in publishing parlance) is our October issue - also our 25th anniversary edition. Amid our celebrations we are readying ourselves with much aplomb for the economic upturn whenever it arrives (whether you agree those green shoots are pushing through now or not!) - no time like the present to get stuck in.

Here at FD Towers there is a palpable sense of excitement and of change. In the coming months we will be unveiling new ways to put FDs in touch with one another - and lots of other ways to help our audience keep on top of what they need to know and do.

Having worked on Financial Director for 18 months now, I have learned much about the growing complexities and challenges FDs from the FTSE-100 to SMEs face: there is really no better time than smack-bang in the midst of the worst recession for a generation for us to be facilitating discussion of these issues within the FD community.

We want to involve you, too: I would appreciate hearing from you on your thoughts around what FDs need from us as the facilitator of that community.

Feel free to reply here, email us at editor@financialdirector.co.uk, call or write us what you would appreciate from the magazine, our events, our web seminars, our email newsletters and our website: how can we help you?

Posted by Melanie Stern, editor designate, Financial Director, 28 Aug 2009

What about Africa?

I have been an avid reader for many years but cannot remember seeing any significant / major information about Ghana and Africa in general.

I hope the new editor will turn FD into an all-inclusive publication

Posted by Kelvin Abdallah, ACCA, ICA, Dip Fin, 04 Sep 2009