Paul Maidment

Director of Analysis & Managing Editor at Oxford Analytica

Speaker

Paul Maidment directs Oxford Analytica's Analysis division and is managing editor of its flagship publication, The Daily Brief. He leads the firm's team of staff analysts and global network of expert contributors.

Previously, Paul was principal and editor-in-chief of Bystander Media, a New York digital publishing consultancy. Before starting his own firm, he was an award-winning journalist and pioneer in digital journalism, being the founding editor of the Financial Times’ website, ft.com, and then spending a decade in a similar print/online role as executive editor of Forbes magazine and editor of forbes.com. His early career was spent as a foreign correspondent and editor with The Economist and the BBC working in London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and New York. That broad range of professional experience gives him a uniquely global perspective on the changes transforming the political economy.