James Harding (born 1969) is a British journalist. In December 2007, he was named editor of The Times newspaper, following Robert Thomson's appointment as publisher of the Wall Street Journal.

Harding was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and City University. Before entering the media, he worked as a speechwriter to a senior Japanese civil servant and for the Japan unit of the European Commission. He began his journalistic career at the Financial Times in 1994 and two years later opened the paper's Shanghai bureau. After serving for three years as the Financial Times' Washington bureau chief, he joined The Times in 2006 as Business Editor.

Harding speaks English, French, German, Mandarin and Japanese.

His book Alpha Dogshttp://us.macmillan.com/alphadogs was published in May 2008 by FSG.

External links

• James Harding at FSG