Speaker Details
Chrystia Freeland
US Managing Editor, Financial Times
Chrystia Freeland is the US Managing Editor of the Financial Times. She leads the editorial development of the papers US edition and of US news on FT.com.
Previously, Freeland served as Deputy Editor in London. Other notable positions Freeland has held at the FT include Editor of FT Electronic Services, Editor of the FTs Weekend edition, Editor of FT.com, UK News Editor, Moscow Bureau Chief and Eastern Europe Correspondent. From 2006 to 2008, she wrote a weekly column for the Saturday edition of the Financial Times titled The A-Train, a social observation of the American upper-middle class, with a personal twist and a serious core.
Freeland worked for two years at The Globe and Mail, Canadas national newspaper, as Deputy Editor. Freeland began her career working as a stringer in Ukraine, writing for the FT, The Washington Post and The Economist.
Freelands expertise lies in the history and culture of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. She received her bachelors degree in History and Literature from Harvard University, and earned a Master of Studies degree from St. Anthonys College at Oxford University, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar.
In September 2006, Freeland launched View from the Top, her weekly CEO video interview series. The videos are streamed on FT.com and print highlights are published in the newspaper.
