A NEW EDITOR FOR FINANCIAL DIRECTOR
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28 Aug 2009, Andrew Sawers, Financial Director
After 12 years as editor of the multi-award winning Financial Director, Andrew Sawers is leaving the magazine at the end of September. He takes up a new role as editorial director with EuroFinance, the conference and training business for corporate treasurers all around the world and which is part of The Economist Group.
Incisive Media is delighted to announce that Sawers will be succeeded by deputy editor Melanie Stern, who joined Financial Director in January 2008. Before that she was section editor at Families In Business magazine, following a career as a futures reporter.
Stern was shortlisted in the 'Best interviewer' category of the Magazine Journalism Awards last year thanks to her profiles of the FDs of National Grid, Crown Estates and Wm Morrison. While at Families In Business she was shortlisted and received a commendation for her journalism in the Management Consultancy Business Writing Awards.
The October 2009 issue - coincidentally, Financial Director magazine's 25th anniversary issue - will be Sawers's last as editor. Stern takes up the reins on 28 September.
Meet the new editor: Your chance to meet our new editor, Melanie Stern, will be at the Financial Director Summit which takes place 17-18 September at the Four Seasons Hotel, Hampshire. See the programme by clicking here or contact Briony.Thompson@incisivemedia.com to book your place today.
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FD is growing fast - watch this space!
There couldn't really be a better time to take over as editor of Financial Director. By coincidence, the final issue our esteemed editor Sawers will put to bed (in publishing parlance) is our October issue - also our 25th anniversary edition. Amid our celebrations we are readying ourselves with much aplomb for the economic upturn whenever it arrives (whether you agree those green shoots are pushing through now or not!) - no time like the present to get stuck in.
Here at FD Towers there is a palpable sense of excitement and of change. In the coming months we will be unveiling new ways to put FDs in touch with one another - and lots of other ways to help our audience keep on top of what they need to know and do.
Having worked on Financial Director for 18 months now, I have learned much about the growing complexities and challenges FDs from the FTSE-100 to SMEs face: there is really no better time than smack-bang in the midst of the worst recession for a generation for us to be facilitating discussion of these issues within the FD community.
We want to involve you, too: I would appreciate hearing from you on your thoughts around what FDs need from us as the facilitator of that community.
Feel free to reply here, email us at editor@financialdirector.co.uk, call or write us what you would appreciate from the magazine, our events, our web seminars, our email newsletters and our website: how can we help you?
Posted by: Melanie Stern, editor designate, Financial Director , 28 Aug 2009 | 00:00