Chrystia Freeland is the US Managing Editor of the Financial Times. She leads the editorial development of the paper’s 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 FT’s Weekend edition, Editor of FT.com, UK News Editor, Moscow bureau chief and Eastern Europe correspondent. Freeland began her career working as a stringer in Ukraine, writing for the FT, The Washington Post and The Economist.

Freeland’s expertise lies in the history and culture of eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. She received her bachelor’s degree in history and literature from Harvard University, and earned a Master of Studies degree from St. Anthony’s College at Oxford University, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar.

Freeland is the author of Sale of a Century: the inside story of the second Russian revolution (2000), which details Russia’s journey from communism to capitalism. Her piece on Mikhail Khodorkovsky, which appeared in the FT Magazine, won ‘Best Energy Submission’ at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards in 2004.

She has been honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

A Canadian citizen, Freeland currently lives in New York City with her husband and their two daughters. - -

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