Zanny Minton Beddoes | |
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 Minton Beddoes at theWorld Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2013 | |
| Born | Susan Jean Elisabeth Minton Beddoes July 1967 (age 57) Shropshire, England |
| Education | Moreton Hall School |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA) Harvard University (MA) |
| Occupation | Editor-in-chief ofThe Economist |
| Spouse | Sebastian Mallaby |
| Children | 4 |
| Awards | Gerald Loeb Award (2012 and 2017) |
Susan Jean Elisabeth "Zanny"Minton Beddoes (born July 1967) is a British journalist. She is theeditor-in-chief ofThe Economist, the first woman to hold the position. She began working for the magazine in 1994 as itsemerging markets correspondent.[1]
On February 2, 2015, she became editor-in-chief ofThe Economist, and the first woman to hold the position. She is also a member of the board of directors of The Economist Group.
Born in Shropshire,[2] Minton Beddoes was educated atMoreton Hall School nearOswestry, and received aBachelor of Arts degree at theUniversity of Oxford, where she studiedPhilosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) as an undergraduate student ofSt Hilda's College, Oxford. She earned a master's degree atHarvard University as aKennedy Scholar from 1989 to 1990, and had the scholarship fully renewed for an additional year.[3]
After graduation, she was recruited as an adviser to theminister of finance in Poland, in 1992,[4] as part of a small group headed by ProfessorJeffrey Sachs of Harvard. She then spent two years as an economist at theInternational Monetary Fund (IMF), where she worked onmacroeconomic adjustment programmes inAfrica and thetransition economies ofCentral and Eastern Europe.
Through this work, she joinedThe Economist in 1994 as the newspaper's correspondent foremerging markets, based in London. She became the economics editor in 1996, overseeing global economics coverage from Washington DC, and later moved to business affairs editor, responsible for business, finance and science. She began as the 17th editor-in-chief on 2 February 2015, the first woman to hold the position.[5][6]
Secured by her appointment to the top editor position atThe Economist, Minton Beddoes was described by the 2015 edition ofDebrett's 500 as "one of the most influential voices in financial journalism".[7] She has written surveys of the world economy, Latin American finance, global finance and Central Asia. She has written extensively about the American economy and international financial policy; the enlargement of theEuropean Union; the future of the IMF; and economic reform inemerging economies. She has been published inForeign Affairs andForeign Policy, contributed chapters to several conference volumes, and editedEmerging Asia (Asian Development Bank, 1997), a book on the future of emerging-markets in Asia.[8]
In May 1998, she provided expert testimony on the introduction of theeuro to theUnited States House Financial Services Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade, a subcommittee of theHouse Committee on Financial Services.[9]
In 2010, Minton Beddoes spoke atPrinceton University withPeter Orszag,Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and ProfessorAlan Blinder, Chair of the Center for Economic Policy Studies at Princeton. Their discussion was called "How Did We Get Into this Mortgage Mess, and How Do We Get Out?"[10] In 2012, she gave the 28th AnnualMax Rosenn Lecture on "Stress-Testing America's Prosperity". Minton Beddoes is a regular commentator onMarketplace and other public radio programmes. She has also appeared onCNN, theBBC World Service,Charlie Rose,[11]PBS NewsHour,CNBC,NBC andReal Time with Bill Maher.[12]
She is a trustee of theCarnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Committee for Economic Development.[13]
In 2015, Minton Beddoes was one of 133 invitees to the63rd Bilderberg conference, an invitation-only meeting of top business leaders, politicians, academics and royalty, for an informal and secret discussion of world issues.[14][15]
Minton Beddoes, the eldest daughter of a former British army officer and his German-born wife,[18] was born Susan Jean Elisabeth Minton Beddoes.[2] She later acquired the nickname Zanny. She is married to British-born journalist and authorSebastian Mallaby. They have four children.[19]
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