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Vendeline von Brewdow is the Deputy Europe Editor and Central and Eastern Europe Correspondent at The Economist, a position she assumed in June 2012. She also maintains the Europe coverage online.

Prior to 2012, Vendeline was one of The Economist’s Business Correspondents covering consumer goods, advertising and brands. Between 2004 and 2007, she was European Business Editor, based in Paris and between 2000 and 2004, she was one of the Finance Correspondents covering insurance, investment managements and stock exchanges.

Previously, she worked for the Financial Times Deutschland and Merrill Lynch in London. Prior to her move to London, she was one of the Wall Street Journal Europe’s editorial page writers in Brussels covering business, politics and culture.

Vendeline has a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University in New York and a diploma from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris.