Henry Boucher

Henry Boucher is Deputy Chief Investment Officer at Sarasin & Partners, focused on global equities and with expertise in Sustainable investment, and responsible for managing one of the firm’s specialist thematic investment strategies, Food & Agriculture Opportunities. He is Chairman of the Sarasin & Partners Investment Strategy Group, responsible for defining the long-term thematic investment landscape. Henry is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment (CISI). He is chairman of the Walcot Foundation, a large independent grant-making foundation and charity that seeks to break cycles of financial deprivation for people living in South London. Henry started his career in fund management in 1983. Specialising in multi-asset and global equity fund management, he has managed a wide variety of funds, including unit trusts, pension funds, life funds and charity endowments.

Penny Chapman

Penny Chapman is a partner in Bircham Dyson Bell LLP and head of the firm’s charity law practice. After studying history at Somerville College, Oxford, she became a solicitor practicing in the field of tax and trusts and ultimately specialising in charities. Miss Chapman regularly advises boards of charity trustees on all aspects of constitutional law and good governance. As well as advising numerous charity clients Miss Chapman is also a trustee of a number of grant-making charities and of the College of Radiographers and World Book Night.

Michael Cronk

Michael Cronk is a retired commodity broker. He joined E.D.& F.Man (now Man Group plc) in 1971, spending the greater part of his career working in the group’s commodity division and serving as director of the group’s sugar company. He was an active arbitrator in the international sugar industry for many years, and served a three year term as chairman of The Refined Sugar Association. Mr Cronk now takes an active interest in various charitable causes, and has served as a trustee on a number of charitable organisations. He is Marjorie Deane’s godson, and was a founding trustee of her foundation in 1998.

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.

Zanny Minton Beddoes

Zanny Minton Beddoes is the Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, appointed in February 2015. She was formerly Business Affairs Editor overseeing the paper’s business, finance, economics, science and technology coverage. From 2007 to 2014 she was Economics Editor, based in Washington, DC. Ms Minton Beddoes joined The Economist in 1994 after spending two years as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). 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. 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).

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 is Chairman of Henderson Group plc and a director of a number of public and private companies. He has written several books on economics and one (bad) novel.

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.

Ritvik Carvalho

Ritvik Carvalho is currently News Editor at Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, where he is building a news product. Before Binance, Ritvik worked at Reuters news agency in London, where he began as a graduate trainee and moved on to covering global financial markets as a data-graphics journalist, specializing in currencies. His work earned him a nomination in the Young Financial Journalist of the Year category at the 2018 Harold Wincott Awards for Business, Economic and Financial Journalism. Prior to entering journalism, Ritvik worked at D.E. Shaw & Co., a New York-based hedge fund. He holds a Master’s degree in Financial Journalism from City, University of London, is a Young India Fellow, and holds a Bachelor’s in Accounting and Finance from Bangalore University.