Chrystia Freeland



Profile:


Full name: Chrystia Freeland

Area of interest: Expertise in the history and culture of Eastern Europe and Russia; US business and political culture

Journals: Financial Times

Email: [mailto:chrystia.freeland@ft.com chrystia.freeland@ft.com]

Website: FT.Com / Chrystia Freeland

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Biography:
Education: Harvard University: BA History and Literature (spending junior year in 1988/89 studying Ukrainian history and literature at Kiev State University); St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University: Slavonic Studies (Rhodes Scholar)

Career: Began career working as a stringer in Ukraine, writing for the FT, The Washington Post and The Economist; worked for two years at The Globe and Mail as deputy editor; Joined FT in 1994. Served as: Moscow Bureau Chief and Eastern Europe Correspondent, UK News Editor, Editor of FT.com, Editor of the Weekend edition, Editor of Electronic Services, Deputy Editor (London), US Managing Editor
 * FT.com profile: Chrystia Freeland

Current position/role: US Managing Editor; Op-Ed Columnist


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Other activities:
 * advisory board of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto
 * board member of the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children

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TV/Radio: Freelance work for the BBC and CBS in Ukraine
 * Wallstrip Chat interview: Chrystia Freeland interviewed by Lindsay Campbell, 21st April 2007 (YouTube VIDEO0

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Awards/Honours:
 * Best Energy Submission, Business Journalist of the Year Awards in 2004, for an item on Russian 'oligarch' Mikhail Khodorkovsky in the FT Magazine
 * Honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum

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Books & Debate:

 * Sale of the Century: Russia's Wild Ride from Communism to Capitalism OCLC 231877420, 2000

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Financial Times:
Column remit: American business and political culture / US current affairs

Section: FT Weekend / Last Word

Role: FT's US Managing Editor

Pen-name:

Email: [mailto:chrystia.freeland@ft.com chrystia.freeland@ft.com]

Website: FT.Com / Chrystia Freeland

Commissioning editor:

Day published: Saturday

Regularity: Weekly

Column format:

Average length: 850 words



Articles: 2010

 * super-rich no longer look so benign'' - on the gap between the plutocracy and the rest - 2nd January



Articles: 2009

 * secret: Muppets, motherhood and apple pie'' - America’s new first lady has been the ideal small ‘c’ conservative wife and mother - 9th May
 * do no harm’ prescription issued for Wall Street'' - As the White House celebrates its first 100 days, a decidedly gloomier group on Wall Street has moved into the second of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief - 29th April
 * era of the modest man'' - Macho leadership has had its day - 11th April
 * fine balance for Obama to strike'' - As world leaders prepare to meet in London, the US president – in an FT interview – displays a familiar sureness of touch but also a resolute urge for unity - with Lionel Barber and Edward Luce, 31st March
 * audacity of help'' - The Future of Capitalism: By intervening to rebalance incomes as well as prop up America’s economy, Barack Obama aims to make the crisis the beginning of a new era of progressive politics - 12th March
 * republic ends princes’ Gilded Age'' - America’s two or three remaining neo-cons – and the bankers who, like Jamie Dimon, are pleading with the White House not to tar all money-changers with the same brush – are sure to complain that the new rules will curb the risk-taking frontier spirit that made this country great - 5th February



Articles: 2008

 * had little choice but to keep on dancing'' - The boom – and the inevitable bust – happened because investors obeyed the logic of financial markets - 9th October
 * consumers will be back'' - It is no surprise that the mood in the US has been muted this holiday season. In recent years, as plutocrats prospered and the rest of the country felt rich too, thanks to home equity loans and mushrooming personal debt, consumption became something of a secular religion. Today, neo-puritans are taking no small pleasure in castigating themselves and their countrymen for that now bygone era - 31st December 2008
 * The first in many ways - In a week when America elected its first African-American president, and its first Democrat in 32 years to win a majority of the popular vote, one of the most e-mailed news stories on The New York Times website was a 475-word item on the red and black Narciso Rodriguez frock his wife wore for his victory speech - 8th November 2008
 * Young, gifted and black: the winning formula - In his victory speech in Chicago’s Grant Park, President-elect Barack Obama reminded his euphoric supporters that he “was never the likeliest candidate for this office” - 5th November 2008
 * New president must rise above playing the blame game - In addition to the time-honoured witches and demons, current events inspired many of the revellers at the annual Halloween street party in New York’s Greenwich Village to don a more unusual costume - 4th November 2008
 * Demise of Reaganomics poses grave intellectual challenge to Republicans - Whether Republicans find themselves in government or in the wilderness, on November 5 they will need to confront the new reality that opposing socialism has become insufficient as a political and economic agenda - 30th October 2008
 * Obama’s vision thing is his most potent asset - You might be tempted to accuse the Illinois newcomer, as the first President Bush said of himself, of lacking “the vision thing” – but vision is Barack Obama’s most potent political asset - 21st October 2008
 * Joe the Plumber of Ohio is no ordinary Joe'' - If Mr Obama wins the presidential contest – and if he wants to be the truly transformational leader that America and the world need right now – he will need to find a way to bring the Joe Wurzelbachers along with him - 18th October 2008
 * hoi polloi vents its discontent'' - Americans have good reason to distrust their elite. The country’s political rulers, led by George Bush’s strong-arm White House, have made it easy to believe that the US government just doesn’t work - 4th October 2008
 * greed releases class war'' - This week, America discovered class war. Newt Gingrich denounced the Treasury’s $700bn plan to flush the toxic debt off Wall Street balance sheets as a “very, very bad idea” - 25th September 2008
 * is a true feminist role model'' - What Democrats, and progressives generally, will have a harder time accepting is that Gov Palin’s nomination could be a milestone for American women: in many ways she is an even better feminist icon than America’s reigning top gal Hillary Clinton - 3rd September 2008
 * oligarchs could be Russia’s best bet'' - how the bear can be tamed - 22nd August 2008
 * personal is political, but don’t forget the kids'' - We would all love to have a stay-at-home wife, and the working girls yearn for one even more than their rumpled husbands - 9th August 2008
 * Obama- love could hurt what it cherishes most - US presidents must be supermen who bestride the globe but must do a plausible impersonation of an ordinary guy - 26th July 2008
 * A new era of frugality - Spending less may be a good move during a period of economic insecurity, but Americans can do better by consuming within their capacity to produce - 21st April 2008
 * Voice of half the people - America is desperately in need of a feminist leader who can express the grievances of women in a language men would listen to and understand - 14th April 2008
 * Wealth of the nation - Research debunks the Easterlin Paradox - being richer does make you happier - 7th April 2008
 * The nice squad - As winter turns to spring and the Pennsylvania primary approaches, is it better to be nasty or to be nice in politics and in the boardroom - 17th March 2008
 * Voters get a fuzzy feeling - The educated and wealthier voters, specially those who are younger and male, tend to be pro-Obama in this demographically charged contest - 7th March 2008
 * Staying ahead in the fields - If you are acquainted with a farmer, you will know that just as the US economy is tipping into recession, things are now pretty terrific down on many farms - 1st March 2008
 * Save us from eco-mum - Earlier this month, a thunderstorm postponed a school “science walk’” during which my six-year-old was supposed to learn more about “aquatic ecosystems - 23rd February 2008
 * Women adapt to survive - I am not one of the feminists who believes American women have a duty to their gender to vote for Hillary Clinton - 15th February 2008
 * Community spirit - Americans seem keen to escape the identity politics that have so marked the past three decades, yet when it came to the choices Americans actually made on Super Tuesday, demographics seemed impossible to escape - 9th February 2008
 * Let the bad times roll - A country with big budget and trade deficits, a weakening currency, a spendthrift culture, a financial sector lacking the skills and systems to manage the risks it has assumed and a banking sector that consistently extended credit to parties unable to repay it goes into financial crisis - 2nd February 2008
 * Tears for ballot-box fears - Does Hillary Clinton have to cry to make Americans like her? - 12th January 2008



Links:

 * Wikipedia bio
 * New statesman articles