Stephanie Flanders

Stephanie Hope Flanders, born on August 5, 1968, is a British economist and journalist. She commenced her career as an economist at the London Business School and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. In 1994, she joined the Financial Times as a leader writer and columnist. Her career progressed with a role as speechwriter and advisor to U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers from 1997 to 2001. Following this, she became a reporter for The New York Times in 2001, prior to joining the BBC. She was educated at St Paul’s Girls’ School and later attended Balliol College, Oxford, where she earned a first-class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She further pursued her education at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar, where she received a Master of Public Administration.

Flanders joined the BBC’s Newsnight in 2002, where she served as its economics editor until 2008. During her tenure, she focused on economic reporting, including a Panorama review in 2005. She was then appointed BBC Economics Editor in February 2008, a role she held for five years. In this position, she provided commentary and analysis on significant economic events. In 2012, she presented “Masters of Money,” a BBC Two documentary series exploring the lives and economic philosophies of historical figures such as Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and Friedrich Hayek. She also hosted “Stephanomics” on BBC Radio Four, a program that delved into global economic questions. In 2013, Flanders transitioned from the BBC to J.P. Morgan Asset Management where she served as Chief Market Strategist for Europe and the UK.

Since October 2017, Stephanie Flanders has been the Senior Executive Editor for Economics at Bloomberg News and head of Bloomberg Economics. In this capacity, she oversees the research and journalism of a substantial team of economists and reporters globally, contributing to Bloomberg’s economic and political analysis. She has been involved in significant initiatives, such as her appointment as Chair of the Inclusive Growth Commission for the Royal Society of Arts in 2016, which published its final report in 2017. She is also the Chair of Artichoke, a non-profit arts production company in the UK, and a trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust, demonstrating her engagement beyond economic journalism.