David Alter
Director of programmes, Economist films
London, United Kingdom
As Director of programmes of Economist films, David Alter leads the creative team that produces documentaries and short-form videos...
As Director of programmes of Economist films, David Alter leads the creative team that produces documentaries and short-form videos...
James Astill is The Economist’s Washington bureau chief and Lexington columnist. Having previously been the Washington correspondent, he has covered US politics...
Ryan Avent joined The Economist in 2009 as online economics editor. In 2011 he became economics correspondent, covering global economic...
Adam Barnes is the deputy news editor and joined The Economist online in June 2005. In 2008 he launched the...
Jonathan Beckman is deputy editor of 1843, The Economist's magazine of long-form storytelling. Before joining The Economist, he was senior editor of Literary...
Sarah Birke is The Economist‘s Tokyo bureau chief, covering Japanese politics, society and business. Prior to this she covered the...
Hamish Birrell is The Economist‘s public policy correspondent, writing mainly for the Britain section. Previously he was education correspondent....
Rosie Blau is editor of 1843 magazine, The Economist's bi-monthly cultural magazine. Previously, she was China correspondent based out of the Beijing office....
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Catherine Brahic is The Economist's Environment editor. She joined in September 2018 as Science correspondent, and was made Environment...
Aryn Braun is a senior audience editor for The Economist. She works across social media, newsletters, apps and economist.com....
Joel Budd joined The Economist in 2003 to cover British home affairs. He was posted to Los Angeles in...
Edward Carr is the deputy editor responsible for editorial. He works alongside the Editor-in-Chief to oversee The Economist's journalism....
Geoff Carr, Science and technology editor, joined The Economist in 1991 as Science Correspondent. He then became Tokyo Correspondent...
Caroline Carter has been writing about about Hong Kong politics and society for the newspaper since late 2015. She also helps...
Slavea Chankova is The Economist's health-care correspondent. She was previously on the data journalism team and the Britain section, writing about...
Richard Cockett joined The Economist in 1999 as Britain correspondent and then became education editor. In 2002 he became correspondent...
Philip Coggan writes the Bartleby column, covering management and work. Previously he wrote the Buttonwood column and, before that,...
Simon Cox is the Emerging Markets editor at The Economist, based in Hong Kong. He has spent over ten...
Tim Cross joined The Economist as an intern in June 2004. He covered business, and then transport, energy and...
Kenneth Cukier is senior editor and the host of the weekly podcast on technology, Babbage. He is the coauthor...
As Economics editor, Henry Curr is The Economist’s principal leader writer on economics and oversees economics coverage throughout the newspaper....
Josie Delap is The Economist's international editor. Prior to this role she was Middle-East business correspondent, covering e-commerce, traditional...
Doug Dowson is a data journalist at The Economist, covering business and economics. He joined the newspaper in 2015....
Mark Doyle joined The Economist in 2000 in the research department, where he specialised in the politics of the United...
Emma Duncan is Britain editor of The Economist. Previously she was social policy editor. Prior to that Ms Duncan was editor of 1843, a bi-monthly...
Tom Easton is Mumbai bureau chief. Tom joined The Economist in 2000, and was New York bureau chief before...
Richard Ensor is The Economist's Mexico City bureau chief and covers Mexico, Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Prior...
Gady Epstein is The Economist's China affairs editor. Previously he served as media editor, writing extensively about how technology is changing...
Jon Fasman, is the Washington correspondent, having previously been South-East Asia bureau chief and Atlanta correspondent. In addition to his work...
Matthieu Favas is The Economist’s Finance Correspondent. He covers finance with a global remit, notably fintech, alternative assets, trade...
Patrick Foulis is The Economist‘s business affairs editor. He joined The Economist in 2008. Between 2014 and 2018 he...
In 2018 Daniel Franklin was appointed to executive and diplomatic editor. Daniel initially held the role of Executive Editor...
Alice Fulwood is The Economist's American finance correspondent, covering a range of topics about banking and the financial system...
Rob Gifford edits The Economist's 10-page special reports. He joined the newspaper in 2011 as China editor. Prior to that...
Lane Greene, based in London, edits Espresso and writes the “Johnson” column on language for the newspaper. Prior to...
Robert Guest is The Economist's foreign editor. Previously he was US editor, business editor, Washington correspondent and Lexington columnist...
Hal Hodson is Asia Technology Correspondent at The Economist. Previously, he worked at New Scientist for three years in...
Emma Hogan is Deputy Briefings Editor at The Economist, working on long-form articles across the paper. Previously, Emma was South-East Asia correspondent, Deputy...
Charlotte Howard is the New York bureau chief and energy and commodities editor. She joined The Economist in 2004. From 2015 to 2018...
Alok Jha is a science correspondent for The Economist, writing on everything from cosmology to particle physics and stem...
Mark Johnson is The Economist's Beijing correspondent. Previously, he wrote about business and politics. He previously covered environmental issues;...
Miranda Johnson is The Economist’s South-East Asia correspondent, based in Singapore. Previously she was the publication’s environment correspondent, Southern United...
Ria has worked for The Economist as a visual journalist since 2011. During her time as Digital & Social...
Shashank Joshi is The Economist's defence editor. Prior to joining The Economist in 2018, he served as Senior Research...
Helen Joyce became executive editor for The Economist’s events business in March 2020. Previously, she edited the paper’s economics and...
Idrees Kahloon is the US policy correspondent at The Economist covering domestic politics and policy. Prior to that, he...
Soumaya Keynes writes for the print edition and the Free Exchange blog. Before joining The Economist Soumaya did research...
Daniel Knowles works on the foreign desk of The Economist. He covers stories worldwide, with a particular focus on...
Anton La Guardia is the Digital editor for The Economist. Prior to this role, he was the Deputy Foreign Editor...
Jack Lahart is The Economist's deputy community editor, working in the social media team to distribute our content across all...
Patrick is the banking editor of The Economist. Previously he edited The Economist's daily publication, Espresso. He joined the...
Rachel Lloyd is the assistant editor of the Books and Arts section. As well as running the daily culture...
Natasha Loder is The Economist’s Health policy editor. Prior to this she was Health-care correspondent. She covers the pharmaceutical...
Simon Long edits the international section of The Economist. Prior, he was the finance and economics editor. For six...
Paul Markillie is The Economist’s innovation editor. Paul principally writes about new technologies and their implications in business. He...
Sarah Esther Maslin joined The Economist in 2017. In 2018 she moved to São Paulo to become The Economist's Brazil...
Edward McBride is The Economist‘s Asia editor. His previous roles were finance editor, Washington bureau chief, business editor and energy...
Charlie McCann is South East Asia correspondent, based in Singapore. Before that she was deputy digital editor and assistant...
John McDermott is The Economist‘s Africa correspondent, based in Johannesburg, and roving across the continent. Before joining The Economist in 2016,...
Anne McElvoy is a former foreign correspondent and columnist. She began her career on the Times, covering east Germany,...
Roger McShane is the Middle East editor for The Economist. Based in London, he reports on over 20 countries...
James Miles took up his position as The Economist's China Editor in August 2014, having previously worked as Beijing...
Andrew Miller is Culture Editor of The Economist. Previously he was the paper’s Moscow correspondent, Britain editor, Bagehot columnist,...
Zanny Minton Beddoes is the Editor-in-Chief of The Economist. Previously she was the business affairs editor, responsible for the newspaper’s coverage...
Leo Mirani is a roving correspondent on the Britain desk. Prior to this he was news editor, in charge...
Elliot Morris is a journalist on the data team, writing quantitatively-driven pieces for The Economist on a wide range of subjects....
Oliver Morton is The Economist’s briefings editor. Before coming to The Economist as energy and environment editor in 2009,...
Sacha Nauta is the public policy editor for The Economist. She writes across the paper about societal change, looking...
Tom Nuttall has been The Economist's Berlin bureau chief since November 2018. Before that he spent four years based...
John O’Sullivan writes the Buttonwood column. He was economics editor from 2015 to 2018, following three years as a...
Arkady Ostrovsky is Russia and eastern Europe editor for The Economist. Prior to this role, he was the Moscow Bureau...
Andrew Palmer is the Executive editor. He was formerly business affairs editor, head of the data team, Americas editor,...
Jason Palmer is host of "The Intelligence" podcast. He joined The Economist as a science and technology correspondent in...
John Parker is an international correspondent, writing without portfolio. He has spent about half his career in foreign bureau...
Sophie Pedder is the Paris bureau chief, writing about French politics and economics. She joined The Economist in 1990 and has...
John Peet is The Economist's political and Brexit editor. Prior to this position, John was Europe editor covering European affairs....
Nicolas Pelham is The Economist’s Middle East correspondent. He started work in Cairo as editor of the Middle East Times and since then...
Stanley Pignal writes about European business, finance and economics out of Paris. In previous roles as finance correspondent then...
Jan Piotrowski is The Economist's business editor. Previously he was São Paulo bureau chief and environment correspondent. Jan also...
John Prideaux joined The Economist as political correspondent in 2004. Prior to this he wrote for The Economist, the...
Simon joined The Economist as Asia economics editor in 2014, primarily focused on Chinese economics and finance. Prior to...
Michael Reid writes the Bello column on Latin America and is the newspaper’s writer-at-large for the region. He is...
David Rennie joined The Economist in 2007 as European Union correspondent and Charlemagne columnist, based in Brussels. From July 2010 to...
Mian Ridge joined The Economist in 2015 as US news editor, based in Washington, DC where among other things...
Bill Ridgers is co-editor of Espresso, The Economist's daily news briefing app. He is also deputy editor of "The...
Adam Roberts is the Midwest correspondent for The Economist covering politics, policy and social affairs in America. Previously, he...
Duncan Robinson is the Brussels bureau chief at The Economist. Prior to this he was Britain political correspondent. Before...
Fiammetta Rocco is a Senior Editor, and the culture correspondent of both The Economist and 1843. Between 2003 and...
Max Rodenbeck runs The Economist’s South Asia bureau in Delhi, covering the 1.7bn people of the Indian subcontinent. He...
Lucy has worked at The Economist as a multimedia journalist since 2008. She has experience in podcasting and short-form...
Dan Rosenheck is the editor of The Economist’s data team, writing quantitatively-driven stories on a broad range of topics...
Jonathan Rosenthal is The Economist's London-based Africa editor. He joined The Economist in 2005 as British business correspondent, having...
Tom Rowley is a Britain correspondent at The Economist. He is particularly interested in social issues and home affairs. Before joining the...
Lena Schipper is Seoul bureau chief for The Economist. Previous to this role she worked as assistant news editor in London....
Guy Scriven is The Economist's climate risk correspondent. Previously, he was South-East Asia correspondent, based in Singapore. Before that...
Marie Segger is a data journalist for The Economist, and covers a broad range of subjects from a quantitative perspective. She...
Alex Selby-Boothroyd is The Economist's head of data journalism. His team writes data-driven articles and creates all of the charts and...
Rachana is Finance editor for The Economist. Previously she wrote about Europe's economies for the paper. She joined the...
Ludwig joined The Economist as US technology correspondent in 1998. In 2003 he moved to Berlin as the newspaper’s...
Xan Smiley joined The Economist in 1983 as Middle East editor and became political editor and "Bagehot" columnist in...
Noah Sneider is The Economist’s Tokyo Bureau Chief, covering Japanese politics, business, society and culture. Prior to this he...
Tom Standage is deputy editor of The Economist and "The World in.." series. He is also responsible for the newspaper's...
Matt Steinglass is the Europe correspondent of The Economist. He began writing and blogging for The Economist in 2009...
Stephanie Studer is The Economist’s senior China business correspondent. Prior to this Stephanie was the Seoul Bureau Chief, writing...
Alexandra Suich Bass is The Economist’s senior correspondent for politics, technology and society, covering a range of political and public...
James Tozer is a journalist on The Economist’s data team. He writes data-driven articles for the graphic detail page...
Alex Travelli is The Economist’s news editor in Asia and an India correspondent based in Delhi. As an editor...
Henry Tricks writes the Schumpeter column on global business and is based in London. Previously, he was the Energy...
Brooke Unger joined The Economist in 1990 as banking correspondent. In 1992 he went to Berlin to cover business...
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Matthew Valencia joined The Economist in 1995 as banking correspondent, and in 1998 moved to Frankfurt to cover German...
Vendeline von Bredow is European business and finance correspondent for The Economist, based in Berlin. Previously she was Midwest correspondent...
Tom Wainwright is the media editor of The Economist. He joined the paper in 2007 to write about British home affairs,...
Rosemarie Ward is the New York correspondent for The Economist, based in New York City. She also covers New England,...
Callum Williams is senior economics writer at The Economist. He joined in 2014 and covers global economic trends including...
Adrian Wooldridge is The Economist's political editor and writes the Bagehot column; an analysis of British life and politics,...
Simon Wright is the industry editor covering cars and new mobility, aerospace, shipping, manufacturing and the like. He joined...
Ann Wroe is the Obituaries Editor of The Economist. After taking a first-class degree in History and a doctorate in...
James Yan is The Economist's China correspondent. Previously he was Marjorie Deane fellow in New York and editorial assistant for The...
Kevin Young spearheads The Economist's digital growth in a newly created role that builds on his previous position as Head...
Wade Zhou is The Economist's US data journalist. He joined the newspaper in 2014.
Dominic Ziegler is The Economist's senior Asia correspondent and Banyan columnist. He joined the newspaper in 1986 as a...