16th September: Patience Wheatcroft, Editor-in-chief, Wall Street Journal Europe
What is the future for Corporate Britain?
Venue:
Economic Research Council, 55 Tufton Street, London SW1P 3QL
Programme:
6.30 pm - Drinks and Networking
7.00 pm - Lecture start
7.30 pm - Q&A
8.00 pm - Finish
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About Patience Wheatcroft
Editor in Chief, Europe
The Wall Street Journal
Dow Jones & Company
Patience Wheatcroft is the editor in chief, Europe, of The Wall Street Journal. Prior to joining the Journal, Ms. Wheatcroft served as a non-executive director of Barclays plc and Shaftesbury plc as well as a consultant on business and public affairs.
In 2008, London Mayor Boris Johnson appointed her to chair The Mayor’s Forensic Audit Panel investigating the finance and governance of the Greater London Authority and London Development Agency. The Panel delivered its report later that year.
Up until this time, Patience had spent her career in journalism, culminating in the editorship of the Sunday Telegraph, which she took on in 2006.
Previously, she was Business and City Editor of The Times for nine years from 1997, where she wrote a daily commentary column on business matters in addition to a weekly column addressing broader political and social issues.
Her newspaper career began with the Daily Mail and included roles at the Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday and Daily Telegraph. In 1986, she launched the specialist trade publication, Retail Week, and edited it for five years.
She has appeared frequently on radio and television and is a regular speaker at conferences and dinners.
She has won the Wincott Award for Senior Financial Journalism and several other industry awards, and in 2006, she received an honorary doctorate from City University in London.
She is a member of the British Olympic Association Advisory Board, the UK/India Round Table and the Council of the Royal Albert Hall, a visiting fellow at Oxford University’s Centre for Corporate Reputation and a member of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford.
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4th September: Dr Gerard Lyons, Chief Economist at Standard Chartered Bank2nd October: Merryn Somerset Webb, Editor-in-chief of Money Week6th November: John Kay4th December: Clash of the Titans IIBooking details for other upcoming ERC Events can be found here
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