Ben Edwards

Current

• Executive Vice President at The Economist Group

Past

• Director, New Media Communications at IBM
• Reporter and Editor at The Economist
• Reporter at Euromoney Magazine

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Education

• Birkbeck, U. of London
• University of Oxford

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Connections

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Industry

Online Media

Websites

• The Economist

Ben Edwards’s Summary

I am Executive Vice President of The Economist Group and Publisher of The Economist online, where journalists, readers and guests analyse and debate the global agenda.

Ben Edwards’s Specialties:

Digital strategy and development, change management, enterprise transformation, applying agile software development methods to corporate management, certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) for agile software development

Ben Edwards’s Experience

• Executive Vice President

  The Economist Group

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)

  I run The Economist's online publishing business. I am responsible for setting online strategy and developing the online product. I manage a global leadership team which designs the customer experience, develops the product, builds the technology platform, acquires the customers and fulfills client orders.

• Director, New Media Communications

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 10 months)

  I was responsible for driving the development and adoption of a wide range of new communications technologies, from blogs and podcasts to wikis, social-networking software and interactive web tools and techniques to reach customers and for internal enterprise transformation within IBM.

• Reporter and Editor

  The Economist

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Newspapers industry)

  January 1996 — May 2005 (9 years 5 months)

  In my nine years at The Economist, I held three different jobs:
  
  Finance correspondent in London, covering investment banking (1996-1998)
  Japan Correspondent and Tokyo Bureau Chief in Tokyo, covering Japanese business, finance and politics (1998-2001)
  American Business Editor in New York, covering American Business (2001-2005)

• Reporter

  Euromoney Magazine

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Newspapers industry)

  January 1993 — December 1995 (3 years )

  I reported on investment banking and the capital markets. I researched and wrote in-depth investigative financial journalism from London, Moscow, Johannesburg, New Delhi, Bangkok, Budapest and many other cities.

Ben Edwards’s Education

• Birkbeck, U. of London

  PGCE , Macroeconomics, microeconomics, mathematical economics, econometrics , 1994 — 1995

  Passed with distinction

• University of Oxford

  BA, English Language & Literature , English Literature, Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, Linguistics , 1988 — 1991

Additional Information

Ben Edwards’s Websites:

• The Economist

Ben Edwards’s Groups:

Director, Association of Online Publishers

•    The Greater IBM Connection: IBM's alumni program for past and present IBM employees
•    The Economist Newspaper readers
•    Economist Group

Ben Edwards’s Honors:

Association of Online Publishers' Award for Digital Innovation, 2009

Ben Edwards’s Contact Settings

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