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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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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Philip Day: the retail knight falls off his horse
Profiles Retail baron Philip Day, once seen as the saviour of the British high street, is under fire for holding to a monastic silence as his suppliers struggle due to coronavirus.
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Mahmud Kamani: a modern rags-to-riches tale
Profiles Mahmud Kamani turned fast-fashion website Boohoo into a business worth billions. The coronavirus crisis may have brought the company’s biggest challenge yet.
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Zhang Yiming: the perfectionist behind the TikTok craze
Profiles Youngsters have gone mad for TikTok, a video-sharing app launched by a Chinese tech company. But the firm’s links to the regime in Beijing have sparked concerns about its intent.
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Wirecard's Markus Braun: schmoozing the elite with tech twaddle
Profiles Markus Braun, the self-styled tech visionary behind failed German tech firm Wirecard, was adept at fooling the gullible. There were red flags from the start, says Jane Lewis.
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Jack Dorsey: Twitter’s chief comes of age
Profiles Jack Dorsey has had a turbulent ride of late, but his strategy of thinking big and biding his time seems to be paying off.
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Stanley Ho: the man who made Asia’s Las Vegas
Profiles Stanley Ho, who died last month, arrived in a dying fishing port as a young man with just ten dollars to his name. He transformed his new home into a global gambling colossus.
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Arnaud Lagardère: Dad, I shrunk the empire
Profiles Arnaud Lagardère, heir of the Lagardère business empire, has been bailed out by the French establishment – again. But this time he is determined to prove his mettle.
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Masayoshi Son: the God of tech tests the faithful
Profiles Masayoshi Son, the founder of Japanese tech giant Softbank, has had a bad crisis. He has bounced back before, and will do again, he insists. It wouldn’t be the first time he’s performed miracles, says Jane Lewis.
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Top four financial villains of the last 20 years
Profiles Despite MoneyWeek’s 1,000 issues, we struggled to find a page of material on people we considered particularly worthy of honour. We were spoilt for choice when it came to villains. Here are our top four.
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The making of Warren Buffett
Profiles The man who “triumphed in the long game by practising a simpler, purer version of capitalism” is widely hailed as the world’s greatest living investor. How did he get to where he is today?
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Nicolai Tangen: Norway’s sovereign wealth fund changes hands
Profiles Nicolai Tangen, a risk-loving, jet-setting financier and hedge-fund manager, has been made head of the sovereign-wealth fund. Is he the right man for the job? Some Norwegians have their doubts. Jane Lewis reports
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Bill Gates: the rebooting of a reputation
Profiles Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates was once widely criticised as a merciless monopolist. But he has tried to reinvent himself as a global health philanthropist. The coronavirus crisis is his biggest challenge yet.
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