A Minnesota native, Jane A. Peterson is a Singapore-based journalist who writes for the Financial Times and other publications around the world. Peterson spent her formative years in broadcasting as a CNN business news presenter in London, a CNBC News correspondent in Washington, D.C., an NBC News correspondent covering the American Southwest, and a correspondent for Deutsche Welle in Cologne. She holds a law and diplomacy masters degree from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a degree in journalism and political science from the University of Minnesota.