Zanny Minton Beddoes

Biography

Zanny Minton Beddoes was appointed Editor-in-Chief of The Economist in February 2015. In her previous post of Business Affairs Editor, she was responsible for overseeing the paper’s business, finance, economics, science and technology coverage. From 2007 to 2014 Ms Minton Beddoes was Economics Editor, based in Washington D.C., where she led the paper’s global economics coverage.

Ms Minton Beddoes joined The Economist in 1994 after spending two years as an economist at the International Monetary Fund. Previously, she worked as an adviser to the Minister of Finance in Poland, as part of a small group headed by Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Harvard University. She holds an undergraduate degree from Oxford University and a master’s degree from Harvard University.

She has written special reports on the world economy, Germany, Latin American finance, global finance and Central Asia. She has published in Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, contributed chapters to several conference volumes and, in 1997, edited “Emerging Asia”, a book on the future of emerging markets in Asia, published by the Asian Development Bank. In May 1998 she testified before Congress on the introduction of the euro.

Ms Minton Beddoes is a frequent television and radio commentator on both sides of the Atlantic, including on the “Bill Maher Show” (HBO), “Fareed Zakaria GPS” (CNN), “Newsnight” (BBC), “Newshour” (PBS), CNBC and “Public Interest” (NPR).