Jane Lewis
Jane writes profiles for MoneyWeek and is city editor of The Week. A former British Society of Magazine Editors editor of the year, she cut her teeth in journalism editing The Daily Telegraph’s Letters page and writing gossip for the London Evening Standard – while contributing to a kaleidoscopic range of business magazines including Personnel Today, Edge, Microscope, Computing, PC Business World, and Business & Finance.
She has edited corporate publications for accountants BDO, business psychologists YSC Consulting, and the law firm Stephenson Harwood – also enjoying a stint as a researcher for the due diligence department of a global risk advisory firm.
Her sole book to date, Stay or Go? (2016), rehearsed the arguments on both sides of the EU referendum.
She lives in north London, has a degree in modern history from Trinity College, Oxford, and is currently learning to play the drums.
Latest articles by Jane Lewis
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Xu Jiayin: the tycoon behind Evergrande
Profiles Xu Jiayin became a wheeler-dealer in China’s muddled transition to capitalism and his connections helped him to enormous riches. Now, he seems to have run out of luck… and friends in high places.
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Clive Sinclair: the father of the home computer
Profiles Clive Sinclair was a serial inventor and visionary whose output also included the prototype electric car. His other interests included poetry, marathon-running and poker.
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Iris Apfel: an inspiration to young fashionistas
Profiles Iris Apfel made her name as a high-society interior designer before a show at the New York Met turned her into a fashion influencer. At 100 years old, she’s still going strong.
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Klarna’s Sebastian Siemiatkowski: fintech innovator gunning for the banks
Profiles Sebastian Siemiatkowski’s Klarna app allows customers to buy now, pay later, without racking up interest charges. He’s excited about the future. Regulators are nervous.
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Pedro Castillo: leftist outsider who rode to power in Peru
Profiles Pedro Castillo amassed support among the left-behind as a trade-union leader before riding to power in this year’s presidential race. What has the country let itself in for?
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Gabe Plotkin and the online mob’s unfinished business
Profiles A social-media pile-on nearly wiped out hedge funder Gabe Plotkin back in January. The fight is not over yet.
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Nigel Rudd: Sir Sell-out’s latest offer may be his last
Profiles An industry joke has it that Nigel Rudd’s businesses are always a buy because he’ll soon be selling up. His latest deal is likely to be his swansong.
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Reese Witherspoon: the dork who became a media mogul
Profiles A decade ago, Oscar-winning actress Reese Witherspoon was in the “romcom doldrums”. Now she’s a one-woman conglomerate with a production company and a book club at its core.
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Austin Russell: the university drop-out who made a billion dollars
Profiles Halfway through his first year as a physics student, Austin Russell won a $100,000 prize designed to encourage young entrepreneurs. A decade later, he is the world’s youngest billionaire. Jane Lewis reports
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George Iacobescu: the man who transformed London
Profiles George Iacobescu, the man who – quite literally – put Canary Wharf on the map, is stepping back from his executive role. He will be a tough act to follow, says Jane Lewis
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José Neves: the Buddhist transforming luxury fashion
Profiles José Neves cornered the market in building bespoke websites and apps for boutique fashion brands and retailers. That put him in a sweet spot when the pandemic arrived.
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The story of Wise, a multi-billion fintech started by accident
Profiles If you grow up in a situation where a whole country has to be made from scratch, creating a game-changing financial technology start-up such as Wise doesn’t seem so outlandish.
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Wes Edens: the raider who snapped up Morrisons
Profiles Wes Edens is already well known in Birmingham for rescuing the city’s Aston Villa football club from disaster. Can he pull a similar trick with a flagging supermarket chain?
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John McAfee: the tech maverick who lost a $100m fortune
Profiles John McAfee made his name pioneering software to protect against computer viruses. He lost nearly everything in the financial crash and lived a life on the run, killing himself to thwart the US authorities.
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Ken Goldin: making a million from a child’s hobby
Profiles Ken Goldin’s career began when, aged 12, he swapped his toy cars for a baseball-card collection. He turned the hobby into a multimillion-dollar business – and now the market is going wild.
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Patrick Drahi’s audacious raid on BT
Profiles Patrick Drahi, the Israeli-French billionaire, has stealthily become the biggest shareholder in the British telecoms firm, seeking to unleash its true value. But his record might well make BT nervous.
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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: prophet of the AI age
Profiles Jensen Huang’s Nvidia started out in computer games. That may have been merely a toehold on the route to global dominance in the tech industry.
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Strive Masiyiwa: the philanthropist who connected Africa
Profiles Strive Masiyiwa made his fortune bringing the mobile phone to the masses in Africa. Now he’s the first black billionaire to join the ranks of The Sunday Times’ Rich List.
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Chamath Palihapitiya: the social savant leading the Spac revolution
Profiles Chamath Palihapitiya is credited with sparking the current market mania for Spacs and mob investing. He says his aim is to bring down the establishment from within.
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Harley Finkelstein’s Shopify: the “Amazon for entrepreneurs”
Profiles Shopify started as a snowboard shop that baulked at gifting its customers to Amazon. Now,it is an essential part of the internet’s infrastructure. Harley Finkelstein, the firm’s driving force, is aiming higher.
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Anthony Tan: the Malaysian business scion taking on Uber
Profiles Anthony Tan has always been unabashedly ambitious and, in taxi-hailing apps, saw his chance to get into the history books. The competition, though, may be about to hot up.
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António Horta-Osório: the tennis ace who saved Lloyds Bank
Profiles António Horta-Osório was determined to rescue Britain’s largest high-street bank from disaster, and he succeeded, if at the cost of his own health. Can he repeat the trick at stricken Credit Suisse?
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Cazoo’s Alex Chesterman: “I’m not an innovator, just a copycat”
Profiles Serial entrepreneur Alex Chesterman likes to improve the consumer experience by spotting what’s broken, then fixing it. That’s been a successful strategy, but is he about to call it a day?
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Moderna’s Stéphane Bancel: the maths nerd who struck vaccine gold
Profiles A decade ago, Stéphane Bancel took a gamble and joined a fledgling start-up working on an unproven new technology. The gamble paid off with the rise of Covid-19.
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