Zanny Minton Biddoes

Editor in chief, The Economist

Zanny Minton Beddoes is editor-in-chief of The Economist. Previously she was the business affairs editor, responsible for the newspaper’s coverage of business, finance and science. Prior to this she was The Economist’s economics editor, and before that the emerging- markets correspondent, in which role she travelled in Latin America and Eastern Europe, writing editorials and country analyses. She has written surveys of the world economy, Latin American finance, global finance and Central Asia. Ms Minton Beddoes joined The Economist in 1994 after two years as an economist at the International Monetary Fund, where she worked on macroeconomic adjustment programmes in Africa and the transition economies of Eastern Europe.