Andrew Cornell
Managing Editor, BlueNotes, ANZ
Andrew Cornell is managing editor of BlueNotes, the ANZ newsroom, a forum for financial services and economic news, opinion and analysis.
Andrew is a multi-award winning journalist, most recently the 2014 Citi Award for Economics writing. He was the 2010 Walkley Award winner for commentary and analysis for a series on how Australia’s financial system survived the financial crisis and won the Citigroup/Columbia University Award for Excellence in Business Journalism for analysis of Japan’s economy. He was a recipient of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade North Asia Research Scholarship.
Andrew was formerly associate editor, senior writer and columnist with the Australian Financial Review, covering business, economics and general culture, including a weekly financial services column and regular magazine essays. He was the senior staff writer for the AFR’s award winning monthly magazine.
From 1998 and 2002 Cornell was the AFR’s North Asia Bureau chief based in Tokyo. Prior to Japan he was a banking and finance correspondent and from 1995 to 2002 he was also Australia and Japan correspondent for the Lafferty Group, specialising in payments and retail banking.