Edie Lush

Edie Lush is a broadcast and print journalist. She is Associate Editor of Spectator Business magazine and writes on technology and entrepreneurs. She is also the Director of Intelligence Squared Festivals and Executive Editor for social network Hub Culture. Social Media interviews she has conducted recently on behalf of Hub include California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and UN Climate Change chief Rajendra Pachauri.

In addition, Edie shares her skills as a trained journalist with clients interested in media training, writing and presentation skills. She helps people who deal with the press gain the confidence to handle enquiries and interviews effectively, structure coherent and relevant messages and develop a powerful and personal communications strategy.

Edie has worked for BBC4, The World Service, The Spectator, Investors Chronicle and The Week magazines. She was the economics and political correspondent for Bloomberg Television and regularly interviewed senior figures from finance and politics. She covered international political and economic events for Bloomberg such as IMF/World Bank meetings, European Union Summits and OPEC meetings.

Previously she was a political analyst for Investment Bank UBS with a focus on the nexus between politics and economics in G-7 and emerging markets. She researched, wrote and marketed updates on political events in UK, Europe and emerging markets that could affect the bond and currency markets. Before moving to London she was a political analyst for hedge fund Omega Advisors specialising in European Monetary Union and European politics. She worked as a speechwriter and international relations specialist for the Secretary General of the Organisation of American States in Washington, D.C. She has also worked for political party Alliance of Free Democrats in Hungary, PR supremos Robinson Lake Sawyer Miller and organized the London:Paris festival that celebrated everything that unites and divides Britain and France. It drew a crowd of over 5,000 people to two and a half days of Anglo-French-inspired debates, conversations, music, food and drink.

Edie holds a Bachelor of Arts cum laude in Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Master of Arts in International Relations from Yale University. She is a dual UK-US citizen, mother to three children and is a keen cook, ski-tourer and marathon runner.

Above is a four minute showreel from my days at Bloomberg Television.

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