Sophie Pedder is the Paris bureau chief, writing about French politics and economics. She joined The Economist in 1990 and has covered British home affairs, European politics, the global media industry, and the end of apartheid in South Africa when Johannesburg correspondent in the mid-1990s. Before working for The Economist she was a research assistant for William Julius Wilson at the University of Chicago’s Urban Poverty and Family Life project.

She is the author of "Le déni français: les derniers enfants gâtés de l'Europe", published in 2012 (JC Lattès), and appears regularly on French television and radio. A graduate of Oxford University and the University of Chicago, she won the David Watt journalism prize in 2006.

Media Professionals, Journalism, Paris, France, France, Political, Economy Finance,