Bronwen Maddox is Chief Foreign Commentator of The Times. She writes a commentary on foreign affairs between four and six days a week in the news pages of The Times which has become one of the best-known fixtures in British journalism, and is one of the most popular items in the newspaper. It is known for its crisp style and for not being afraid to reach a judgement on the day's events, while avoiding political ideology. It attracts a vigorous comment from thousands of readers online around the world. Many leading politicians and heads of state have called it a "must-read". Dr Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan's former High Commissioner in London, called it "essential reading in all kinds of capitals".
In writing the column, which she has done for more than five years since the start of the Afghan invasion in November 2001, Bronwen Maddox has won access to some of the most influential figures in the British Government and the Bush Administration, and in governments across Europe, the Middle East, Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. She has conducted many of the paper's interviews with heads of government: with Gordon Brown and Tony Blair many times; with Angela Merkel, German Chancellor; with Viktor Yushchenko, Ukrainian president. The Kremlin picked her to be the sole British journalist interviewing President Putin on June 1, 2007, when he declared that he would point his nuclear missiles at Europe again.
She is the author of In Defence of America, a book which argues the case for supporting the US after the Iraq war, published in the UK and US in 2008. She is an accomplished public speaker to many different audiences, from financial to military, and appears regularly on television and radio in the UK and US.
From 1999 until 2003, Bronwen Maddox was also Foreign Editor of the paper, and edited the daily foreign news pages, supervising its coverage of the Kosovo war, the Sierre Leone war, the second Palestinian intifada, and September 11, 2001 (for which The Times won the prestigious Foreign Press Association award for best British coverage).
From 1996 to 1999, she was The Times' US Editor and Washington Bureau Chief, supervising the paper's 10 correspondents in the US, and covering President Clinton's reelection and his second term, until the finale of the Monica Lewinsky affair.
She was previously at the Financial Times, where she ran the paper's year-long, award-winning, investigation into the publishing tycoon. Before his death, she mapped the 800 companies making up his corporate empire, establishing that the total amount of debt was insupportable; the work culminated in a 30,000-word series, based on 200 interviews, which she wrote on her own, and won the paper a British Press Award. She was also an editorial writer, specialising in microeconomics, and a specialist correspondent in energy and the environment, travelling widely through Eastern Europe and China.
Previously, she was an investment analyst in the City and on Wall Street, and a Director of Kleinwort Benson Securities, now part of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, where she ran its highly-rated team recommending investment in world media stocks.
She has a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from St John's College, Oxford. She has dual US-British nationality and grew up in London and Washington, DC in a transatlantic family with an American mother and British father. She is a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation, the historic conference centre which fosters transatlantic relations, and lives in Notting Hill, London with her daughter.
Mary Greenham manages Andrew Marr, George Alagiah, Nick Robinson, Stephanie Flanders's speaking engagements. She also acts as booking agent for many other personalities.