Vivian Lewis

Vivian Lewis brings unique experience and competences to the business of picking foreign stocks.

After graduating from Harvard magna cum laude (and being elected to Phi Beta Kappa), Vivian was living in Brussels as a new bride, and doing research in Amsterdam towards her PhD thesis from the University of London. With all that travelling, she ran out of money. Rather than getting her father to finance her further education, she took a job with the Brussels bureau of Business Week--becoming a financial journalist by accident. She never looked back. Two years later she had been named bureau chief, only to get fired for becoming pregnant (this was 1966!)

Luckily, The Economist was looking to hire people, and Vivian covered France and French Africa for them before being lured away by the Sunday Times of London. After an interval working in Washington first for the Joint Economic Committee and then for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Vivian again moved to Europe where she worked for Euromoney and then Institutional Investor.

Back in the U.S. again, she decided that the retail investor managing his or her own investments deserved the kind of information she had been digging up for mutual fund and pension fund managers. So she started Global Investing.

Vivian brings to her readers her familiarity with foreign markets, a full rolodex of contacts garnered during 18 years of living abroad, and the ability to speak a half-dozen languages.