Michael Peel

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Michael Peel is the Bangkok regional correspondent of the Financial Times. He first joined the FT in 1997 and has done various jobs in London, as well as postings as West Africa correspondent and Middle East correspondent, where he covered the uprisings that swept the region. He is the author of "A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier," which was shortlisted for The Guardian's first book award. He tweets at @mikepeeljourno.

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