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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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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Eric Yuan, the engineer whose world went Zoom
Profiles Eric Yuan, an engineer who invented business-conferencing tool Zoom, became a billionaire when his app became a must-have accessory in lockdown. But the really wild ride might just be beginning.
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Bill Ackman: the billionaire who bet big on viral doom
Profiles Bill Ackman of hedge fund Pershing Square saw trouble coming early and placed a punt on the stockmarket outcome. His huge win may be followed by a second one.
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Richard Branson: the goateed mascot of British capitalism
Profiles Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin empire is in trouble due to coronavirus. Can it be saved?
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Daksh Gupta: the accidental salesman with a big heart
Profiles Daksh Gupta was studying at university and washing cars to make ends meet when he sold a car by accident. He’d found his calling, but the coronavirus crisis has presented new challenges.
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Ray Dalio: the seer blindsided by a bug
Profiles When the financial crisis struck in 2008, Ray Dalio’s hedge fund was well prepared to profit and he has since enjoyed a reputation for prescience. He was, he admits, not so fortunate this time round.
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Peter Thiel: Utopian elite flee for "Galt’s Gulch"
Profiles Peter Thiel, the tech tycoon who founded PayPal, has long been prepared for a flight from societal collapse. As coronavirus panic spreads, where is the enigmatic billionaire now?
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Barclay twins: billionaire brothers square off in court
Profiles The Barclay twins spent 60 years building a business empire together. Now, they are squabbling over the spoils and threatening lawsuits.
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Jack Welch: Americans have got to “work like dogs”
Profiles Jack Welch saw earlier than most that Asian competitors were coming for corporate America’s lunch. He revolutionised business management in response, and came to define an era.
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Can “super geek” Jeff Bezos save the planet?
Profiles Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, seen by some as the “evil face of capitalism”, is becoming a power beyond the reach of his multi-tentacled company. His next aim is to halt climate change.
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Rishi Sunak: the maharaja of the Yorkshire Dales
Profiles Rishi Sunak is taking the reins of the world’s fifth-largest economy at a crucial juncture. The unflashy but likeable youngster may be just the man for the job.
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Les Wexner: the Merlin of the Mall loses his magic
Profiles Les Wexner built a retail empire from scratch and made a fortune in the process. He ended up placing his trust and many powers in the hands of disgraced tycoon Jeffrey Epstein. What went wrong?
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