Zanny Minton Beddoes

Beddoes at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2013

Susan "Zanny" Minton Beddoes (born 1967) is a British journalist. She is the 17th and first female editor-in-chief of The Economist. She began working for the newspaper in 1994, as its emerging markets correspondent.

Education and career

Beddoes was educated at Moreton Hall School near Oswestry, received an undergraduate degree at Oxford University, where she studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St Hilda's College, and earned a master's degree at Harvard University, as a Kennedy Scholar.[1]

After graduation, she was recruited as an adviser to the Minister of Finance in Poland, in 1992,[2] as part of a small group headed by Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Harvard. She then spent two years as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where she worked on macroeconomic adjustment programmes in Africa and the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe.

Through this work, she joined The Economist in 1994 as the magazine's correspondent for emerging 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 and first female editor-in-chief on 2 February 2015.[3][4]

Influence

Secured by her appointment to the top editor position at The Economist, Beddoes is considered one of the most influential voices in financial journalism.[5] 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 the European Union; the future of the IMF; and economic reform in emerging economies. She has been published in Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, contributed chapters to several conference volumes, and edited Emerging Asia (Asian Development Bank, 1997), a book on the future of emerging-markets in Asia.[6]

In May 1998, she provided expert testimony on the introduction of the Euro to the United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade, a subcommittee of the House Committee on Financial Services.

She gave the 28th Annual Max Rosenn Lecture on "Stress-Testing America's Prosperity" and has spoken at Princeton with Peter Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Professor Alan Blinder, Chair of the Center for Economic Policy Studies, Princeton. Their discussion was called "How Did We Get Into this Mortgage Mess, and How Do We Get Out?"[7] Beddoes is a regular commentator on Marketplace and other public radio programmes. She has also appeared on CNN, the BBC World Service, Charlie Rose,[8] PBS NewsHour, CNBC, NBC, Real Time with Bill Maher and Public Interest. She is a regular panelist on Tucker Carlson Unfiltered.[9]

She is a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Committee for Economic Development.[10]

In 2015, Beddoes was one of 133 invitees to the elite 63rd Bilderberg conference, an invitation-only meeting of top business leaders, politicians, academics and royalty, for an informal and secret discussion of world issues.[11][12]

Personal life

Beddoes, the daughter of a former British army officer and his German wife,[13] was born Susan Jean, and later acquired the name Zanny. She is married to British-born journalist and author Sebastian Mallaby.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Shakespeare, Sebastian (16 February 2015). "Ed Balls got cosy with Economist's lady editor". Daily Mail. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  2. ↑ Sweney, Mark (2016-05-29). "Economist editor: "We don't want to be the grandpa at the disco"". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-12-20.
  3. ↑ "Ms Zanny Minton Beddoes". The Economist. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  4. ↑ Kemp, Stuart (22 January 2015). "Economist magazine appoints its first female editor". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "Zanny Minton Beddoes". Debrett's. Retrieved 15 May 2015.
  6. ↑ "Zanny Minton-Beddoes". 28 January 2009.
  7. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 25 June 2010. Retrieved 18 April 2009.
  8. ↑ "The Global Economy: A Roundtable Discussion" – via www.bloomberg.com.
  9. ↑ "Speakers.com – Leading Speakers Bureau for world's greatest speakers, entertainers and celebrities > Speakers > Advanced Search". www.speakers.com.
  10. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 April 2010. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
  11. ↑ CNNMoney (11 June 2015). "Inside the world's most secretive VIP meeting". CNN. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
  12. ↑ Parkinson, Justin (10 June 2015). "Just who exactly is going to the Bilderberg meeting?". BBC. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
  13. ↑ The Economist (2018-09-15), Steve Bannon interviewed by Zanny Minton Beddoes | The Economist, retrieved 2018-09-20
Preceded by
John Micklethwait		 Editor of The Economist
2015–present		 Succeeded by
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