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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Peter Cowgill: the force behind a fashion phenomenon
Profiles Peter Cowgill became the accountant for a small sports shop in the Pennines in the early 1980s. Now, JD Sports is one of the most formidable forces on the high street. Jane Lewis reports
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Elon Musk: the space oddity seeking world domination
Profiles Elon Musk, the electric-car and space-travel pioneer who wants to move to Mars is now the world’s richest man. If he seems delusional, that’s all part of the plan.
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Adar Poonawalla: the vaccine prince who will save the world
Profiles Adar Poonawalla, the chief of the world’s biggest vaccine manufacturer by volume, has an ambitious plan to rescue us all from Covid-19. The future for his dynasty looks bright, says Jane Lewis.
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The return of Janet Yellen
Profiles Janet Yellen, the former US central-bank chief is back, this time as US Treasury secretary. Donald Trump wondered whether she was too short for the job – she is now seen as a towering figure.
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The Kwoks: a soap opera set to run and run
Profiles Boardroom battles, bribery convictions, feuds, kidnapping – the Kwoks’ Hong Kong property empire has seen the lot. But for all the drama, they have tended to get the big bets right.
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Philip Green: retail king who lost the Midas touch
Profiles Philip Green’s empire has collapsed, taking great chunks of the high street with it. In the Noughties his Topshop chain was called Britain’s favourite emporium. What went wrong?
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The authentic magic of Dolly Parton
Profiles Dolly Parton, the warm-hearted chanteuse from Tennessee, blends old-fashioned etiquette with openness and is loved by millions. She also has a very shrewd business mind.
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Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci : the boffins behind the Covid-19 vaccine
Profiles Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci are an unassuming Turkish-German couple who had already made their fortune as biotech entrepreneurs when a strange new virus emerged in Wuhan. They saw it as their duty to leap into action.
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Lawrence Stroll: the petrolhead who saved Aston Martin
Profiles Lawrence Stroll made his fortune in fashion and has a passion for Ferraris and motorsport. When he saw the greatest luxury car brand in the world struggling, he swooped in.
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Ronald Perelman: the billionaire who is downsizing
Profiles Ronald Perelman acquired a fortune as a dealmaker during the 1980s takeover boom. Now he seems to be quietly selling up.
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Donald Kendall: helping Pepsi win the cold war
Profiles Donald Kendall was there to serve Nikita Khrushchev a Pepsi during a famous cold war détente with Richard Nixon. He went on to become a 20th-century marketing legend.
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Craig Newmark: the nerd who shook up the media giants
Profiles Twenty-five years ago, Craig Newmark lost his job at a brokerage and fired off an email to friends. That seeded a venture, Craigslist, that dominates online advertising in the US to this day.
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Mukesh Ambani: the Indian billionaire eyeing global expansion
Profiles Mukesh Ambani is already the richest man in India by a large margin, but his ambitions do not end there. He wants India to be at the front of the world’s next great leap forward.
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Mohsin and Zuber Issa : garage tycoons who put Asda in their trolley
Profiles The supermarket’s new owners are Mohsin and Zuber Issa, two brothers from Blackburn who started with a rundown petrol station 20 years ago. But their success has always been about food as much as fuel.
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Reed Hastings: Netflix founder who looms over Hollywood
Profiles Reed Hastings turned Netflix – a DVD rental service rejected by Blockbuster – into a global streaming giant that has redefined the entertainment industry.
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Trevor Milton: big dreamer wakes to a hard reality
Profiles Trevor Milton wanted to be the next Elon Musk, and planned to revolutionise transport with hydrogen-powered trucks. His dreams are unravelling amid allegations of fraud.
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Terence Conran: the man who banished the spam fritter
Profiles Terence Conran, who has died aged 88, introduced a country of grey houses and colourless mackintoshes to the dolce vita. He instigated a revolution in taste.
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Daniel Loeb: fiery activist goes on a buying spree
Profiles Daniel Loeb is known as a sharp-tongued investor who buys stakes in companies and then shakes them up. But the pandemic caught him flat-footed and he has changed tack.
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Forrest Li : “Singapore’s Steve Jobs” shoots for the stars
Profiles Forrest Li was there when Apple founder Steve Jobs delivered his famous Stanford graduation speech. The experience inspired him to aim for big things – and he is achieving them.
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The downfall of Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s philosopher king
Profiles Steve Bannon, the American president’s combustible former chief strategist, has gone down in flames, accused of milking a political fund for personal gain. It’s not the end we’d have expected, says Jane Lewis.
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Sumner Redstone: the media mogul who cheated death
Profiles Sumner Redstone, a legendary dealmaker and eccentric star of the film industry, said that he was never going to die. It’s one of the few things he was wrong about in his extraordinary career.
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Bernard Looney: BP’s woke warrior detoxifies oil
Profiles Bernard Looney wants to turn the oil giant he heads into an environmentally friendly force for good. He’s not the first to try, but there’s good reason to take him seriously. Jane Lewis reports.
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Sharon White: the economist shaking up John Lewis
Profiles Dame Sharon White had no experience of retail when she took the top job at the nation’s favourite department store. Can she turn around an ailing industry?
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Stuart Wheeler : the granddaddy of spread-betting
Profiles A lifelong obsession with gambling helped make Stuart Wheeler his fortune. By using that to back the Brexit campaign, he changed the face of British politics.
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