Phil Baty is responsible for all of Times Higher Education’s international coverage, including the annual World University Rankings. He is also responsible for commissioning online news and the online columnists.

Phil Baty has been with the magazine since 1996 as reporter, chief reporter, deputy news editor and news editor. In 2007 he was a runner-up for the annual Paul Foot Award for Campaigning Journalism, run by The Guardian newspaper and Private Eye magazine. He also made the longlist for this award in 2005, its inaugural year. He was commended as a finalist for the Award for Outstanding Education Reporting for National Journalists and in 2007 he was nominated for the Ted Wragg Award for Sustained Contribution to Education Journalism, both part of the annual Education Journalist of the Year Awards and run by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.

Phil Baty is participating in the League tables: flawed rankings or key benchmarks? session.