Ben Edwards

Ben Edwards

Executive Vice President, The Economist Group

Greater New York City Area

Current
Past
  • Director, New Media Communications at IBM
  • Reporter and Editor at The Economist
  • Reporter at Euromoney Magazine
Education
  • Birkbeck, U. of London
  • University of Oxford
Connections
255 connections
Industry
Online Media
Websites

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 2007Present (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 2005February 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 1996May 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 1993December 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 , 19941995

    Passed with distinction

  • University of Oxford

    BA, English Language & Literature , English Literature, Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, Linguistics , 19881991


Additional Information

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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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