Zanny Minton Beddoes
U.S. Economics Editor, The Economist
Zanny Minton Beddoes is the U.S. Economics Editor for The Economist, covering the U.S. economy and issues surrounding globalization (trade and capital flows). Before moving to Washington, D.C., she was based in London as the magazine's emerging-markets correspondent. She joined The Economist in 1994 after spending two years as an economist at the International Monetary Fund, where she worked on macroeconomic adjustment programs in Africa and the transition economies of Eastern Europe. Before joining the IMF, she worked as an adviser to Poland's minister of finance. Minton Beddoes has written extensively about international financial issues, including enlargement of the European Union, the future of the IMF and economic reforms in emerging economies. She has been published in Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, and edited Emerging Asia, a book on the future of emerging markets in Asia. She is a regular panelist on Tucker Carlson "Unfiltered" and has appeared on CNN, "The MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour," CNBC and "Public Interest." She is a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Committee for Economic Development.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.