Bronwen Maddox is widely recognised as the director of the Institute for Government, a position she has held since 2016. Maddox has enjoyed an immensely successful career and has worked for several prominent international organisations including Prospect magazine, The Times, Financial Times and Charterhouse Capital Partners.

Born in New York, Maddox relocated to London where she would study at the University of Oxford. Maddox is known for her acute analysis and incisive thinking. Maddox started her career as an investment analyst with Charterhouse Capital Partners, before going on to become director of the media investment team at Kleinwort Benson. Maddox is the former leader writer at the Financial Times newspaper and worked for The Times newspaper writing weekly columns, where she became chief foreign commentator in 1999. Later she would accept the position of chief executive and editor of Prospect magazine, which she held until 2016. In 2016, she was appointed director of the Institute for Government, a think tank based in London which works to improve government effectiveness through extensive research and analysis.

Maddox has interviewed several extremely high profile and often controversial figures, including George W. Bush, Angela Merkel, Tony Blair and Vladimir Putin. Maddox famously interviewed Benazir Bhutto, former Prime Minister of Pakistan, shortly before she was assassinated by a suicide bomber in 2007. Maddox is a trustee of the Imperial War Museum and is also a trustee of Chatham House.