Renée Friedman

Managing Editor, EMEA, The Economist Intelligence Unit

Renée Friedman is a Managing editor for EMEA for the Economist Intelligence Unit. Her work focuses on Thought leadership programmes for the financial services sector.

Prior to joining the Economist Intelligence Unit, Renée worked in a variety of roles: in Economic and Political risk consulting, in finance in the City of London as an Economist, a Macro strategist and a Bond fund manager, in the international and UK policy spheres as an Economist to the Treasury Select Committee at the House of Commons and as Senior Economist and Chief Technical Advisor for the UN Development Programme’s (UNDP) Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS, and as an academic, designing and teaching economics courses at universities across London.

Renée has spoken on a variety of panels and events focused on Russia, Ukraine and other emerging market economies as well as on the financial services sector including those for The Economist Group, BNE Intellinews, IHS Global Isight, the IMF Poverty Reduction Strategy meetings, and for the UNDP. She has also appeared on CNBC.

Renée holds a PhD in Economics from London Business School.