Vicky Ward

Vicky Ward
Born Victoria Penelope Jane Ward
(1969-07-03) 3 July 1969
Chelmsford, England
Residence New York City, NY
Alma mater University of Cambridge
Occupation Author, investigative journalist, columnist, newspaper editor, magazine editor, television commentator
Spouse(s)
Matthew Doull
(m. 1995; div. 2010)
Children 2

Victoria Penelope Jane ("Vicky") Ward is a British-born author, investigative journalist, columnist and television commentator. She is a magazine editor-at-large and former newspaper editor. She has lived in New York City since 1997.

Vicky Ward

Her portrait, taken by photographer Jason Bell, is hung in the British National Portrait Gallery as part of Bell's series "An Englishman in New York." [1]

Personal life

Vicky Ward has two twin children born in 2003 with her then-husband, Matthew Doull, whom she divorced later in 2010. Currently living in New York City with her children and fiancée.

Journalism career

Vicky Ward is the author of two best-selling books, the New York Times Bestseller, The Devil’s Casino: Friendship, Betrayal and the High Stakes Games Played Inside Lehman Brothers (Wiley, 2010) and The Liar’s Ball: The Extraordinary Saga of How one Building Broke the World’s Toughest Tycoons (Wiley, 2014). The Liar’s Ball is being developed as a possible feature film by J.C. Chandor and A24 Productions. She currently lives in New York City.

In July 2017, Vicky was appointed Editor at large for HuffPost and Huffington Post Highline, their long-form magazine. Recent HuffPost exclusives have included interviews with Blackwater’s Erik Prince, Trump’s Michael Cohen and Anthony Scaramucci on the White House and why he was fired.

For the Huffington Post Highline, Vicky recently wrote about Pence’s Chief of Staff, Nick Ayers: Dark Money King, Pence Puppeteer and White House Wunderkind and Robert and Rebekah Mercer’s influence in the 2016 election. Charlie Rose later interviewed her on this piece.

Vicky is also Editor at large at Town & Country magazine, where she writes about culture. Her pieces have included an article on the late, seminal Russian Art Collector Sergei Shchukin, Frank Gehry’s first-ever sail boat design, a $2 billion fraud in the modern art world and the Knoedler art trial.

In her last role, Vicky wrote investigative long-form articles for Esquire including a piece in October 2016 on Jared Kushner. In December 2016 she profiled the Russian-born cyber-terrorism expert Dmitri Alperovitch.

Previously, she was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair for eleven years (2001-2012) where her articles covered a wide array of subject matter: politics, finance, art and culture and society. Among other things she wrote about Hewlett Packard, Morgan Stanley, Bruce Wasserstein, a failed coup in Africa, Kate Middleton, Valerie Plame, counterterrorist czar Dick Clarke, Brooke Astor, Veronica Hearst, the Guggenheim, the Getty, Phillips de Pury Luxembourg, St Barths, Vivendi, Jeffrey Epstein, Washington Interns, the Fairfield Greenwich hedge fund and Bernie Madoff.

In addition to writing, she was also an articles editor her first year at Vanity Fair (2001-2002); she was Tina Brown’s executive editor at Talk (2000-2001) and she was the Features and News Features Editor of the New York Post (1999-2001).

She was a columnist for the London Evening Standard (2007-2011). She has contributed to, among others, The Financial Times, the New York Times, The London Times and Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, the UK Spectator Magazine, British Vogue, US Harpers Bazaar and Porter. She has also had on-air contracts with CNBC and Bloomberg TV. She appears regularly on MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

Prior to moving to the U.S. she was a columnist and feature writer for Britain’s Independent Newspaper.

Awards

In 1993 she was runner-up for The Catherine Pakenham award, Britain's most prestigious prize for long-form writing by women under the age of 25. In recognition for her journalistic work, Ward received Women: Inspiration and Enterprise's first media award in September 2010.

Education

BA and MA in English Literature, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, UK (1988 – 1991) Benenden School, England, Academic Scholar (1983 – 1987)

References

  1. ↑ "An Englishman in New York". The Guardian. The Observer. 14 August 2010.

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