Bronwen Maddox has been the editor and chief executive of Prospect magazine since 2010. Previously, she was chief foreign commentator, foreign editor, and US editor and Washington bureau chief of The Times. Prior to that, she was at the Financial Times, where she ran the paper's year-long, award-winning, investigation into the publishing tycoon, Robert Maxwell, and was also an editorial writer, primarily on microeconomics, and a specialist correspondent in energy and the environment, travelling widely through Eastern Europe and China. She has also been an investment analyst in the City and on Wall Street, and a director of Kleinwort Benson Securities. She is the author of In Defence of America, a book arguing the case for supporting the US after the Iraq war. She is a member of the Council of the Ditchley Foundation; a Member of the Council of Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs; and a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum. She was a judge of the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.