Writer & editor.

I'm a British writer and editor based in the south of France. I spent most of my career as a journalist for US publications including the Wall Street Journal, Time and Fortune, reporting from Bonn, New York, Moscow, Paris, Berlin and Los Angeles.

I'm the author of four books on France, including the best-selling critique of the French education system, They Shoot School Kids, Don't They? My latest essay, Citizens of Everywhere, is an account of why I acquired German citizenship eighty years after my German-Jewish grandparents fled Nazi persecution. I have also written a one-woman show called Cécile, about the 19th century French composer Cécile Chaminade, who was very famous in her day but who has largely disappeared from the repertoire since.

I taught journalism at Sciences Po for a decade and served as the university's communications director. I worked for seven years as the editorial director at a global consulting firm, writing and editing reports and articles on a wide range of topics, from the future of work to climate risk. For the past five years, I have worked as an independent editor and ghost writer.