Lionel Barber

Lionel Barber is an author, broadcaster and former editor of the Financial Times (2005-2020). Gambling Man, his biography of Masayoshi Son, CEO and founder of SoftBank, was published in October 2024 by Penguin Random House. During his editorship, Lionel led the digital transformation of the FT, winning multiple prizes for its journalism. including three Newspaper of the Year awards and reaching 1m paying readers worldwide. Lionel lectures widely on business, finance and international affairs. At the FT, he interviewed many world leaders including Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel and Narendra Modi. He is the recipient of the Legion d’Honneur and the Stella d’Italia for services to journalism and the transatlantic community, and until recently served as a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.  Lionel is the co-presenter of Media Confidential podcast, along with former editor of the Guardian Alan Rusbridger. He is also a senior adviser to Allen & Co in New York and a member of the international advisory board of Chubb.

Henry Boucher

Henry Boucher has been an avid consumer of financial journalism for forty years. His professional life has been managing global investments for institutional investors with longer-term time horizons, including large charities, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds. Today his primary role is investment strategy. A keen conservationist, Henry formed one of the first specialist ESG/ethical investment teams in London in 1987 and has worked to improve awareness, measurement and better management of natural and social capital in finance and business ever since. For the last fifteen years he has been an active charity trustee, including chair of the Walcot Foundation, a charity that seeks to break cycles of financial deprivation for people living in South London.

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Tom Easton

Tom Easton is the American finance editor. Tom joined The Economist in 2000, and was New York bureau chief before being appointed the Asian business editor in 2007. Previously he was the New York and Tokyo Bureau Chief for the Baltimore Sun, and a senior editor of Forbes. He has done regular television and radio spots with most of the world’s major broadcast networks. Tom writes on finance, law and capitalism.

Daniel Franklin

Daniel Franklin is executive editor at The Economist, and helps lead the newspaper’s coverage of America. He joined the paper in 1983 to write about the Soviet Union and eastern Europe. Over four decades his roles have included Europe editor, Britain editor, Washington bureau chief, editorial director of the Economist Intelligence Unit, editor-in-chief of Economist.com, business-affairs editor and diplomatic editor. For 17 years he edited The Economist’s annual publication on the year ahead. He has edited two books on longer-term forecasting, looking at the world in 2050. He chairs The Economist Educational Foundation, a charity enabling children to join inspiring discussions about the news.

Alice Fulwood

Alice Fulwood is The Economist’s Wall Street correspondent, covering a range of topics about banking and the financial system in America. She is based in New York. For her work covering American finance in 2019 she won the Wincott Foundation Young Journalist of the Year Award. Alice first joined The Economist in 2018 on an internship sponsored by the Marjorie Deane Foundation, where she wrote about finance, banking and economics.

Prior to joining The Economist Alice worked for an investment bank. During her tenure Alice was based in Singapore as an Economist covering Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. She also worked as a foreign exchange spot and derivatives sales trader in London. Alice graduated from the University of Cambridge, where she studied Economics.

Zanny Minton Beddoes

Zanny Minton Beddoes is the Editor-in-Chief of The Economist. She is a renowned global economics expert, sought-after for her authoritative perspectives on the world economy. She previously worked at the International Monetary Fund, and as an adviser to the Minister of Finance in Poland.

Rupert Pennant-Rea

Rupert Pennant-Rea was a journalist at The Economist from 1977 to 1993, the last seven years as Editor-in-Chief. He rejoined the board of the Economist Group in 2007 and became Chairman in 2009. He was Deputy Governor of the Bank of England from 1993 to 1995, and has been involved in business since then. He has written several books on economics and one (bad) novel.