Bronwen Maddox

Bronwen Maddox was the director of the Institute for Government from 2016–22

Before joining the Institute, Bronwen was editor and chief executive of Prospect, a leading monthly current affairs magazine. Prior to that she was chief foreign commentator, foreign editor and US editor of The Times, supervising its award-winning coverage of September 11 2001. She was previously at the Financial Times, where she ran award-winning investigations and wrote economics editorials.

Before becoming a journalist, she was an investment analyst in the City and a director of Kleinwort Benson Securities, where she ran its highly-rated team analysing world media stocks.

She has a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from St John’s College, Oxford. She is a governor of the Ditchley Foundation, which fosters transatlantic relations, and a non-executive board member of the Law Commission, the public body which recommends reform of laws in England and Wales.  

Bronwen is currently a Visiting Professor in The Policy Institute at King’s College London (since March 2018).

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