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Stuart Grudgings

Takoma Park

Summary

A thought leadership writer and communications specialist with global journalism experience managing high-profile projects and diverse teams. Skilled at interviewing senior business sources and writing high-impact content across digital platforms. Expertise in tech, institutional investment, finance, politics, and diplomacy.

Overview

24
24
years of professional experience

Work History

Thought Leadership Strategist And Writer

The Expert Press
Wheat Ridge
10.2017 - Current
  • Working with business leaders to help them tell their best stories, build their personal brands and increase their impact. I interview high-profile executives and create thought leadership content that appears on news sites including Entrepreneur, Forbes and PE Hub. Subjects range from tech to healthcare, finance and branding. I have also produced recent content for the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and the World Bank.

Senior Business Researcher

Blue Heron Research Partners
New York
2017 - Current
  • Using investigative journalism skills, I manage projects and carry out in-depth interviews of sources for investment intelligence about business leaders, companies and political/regulatory issues. Subjects have included CEOs of household-name tech companies, multinational corporations, well known entrepreneurs, and private equity targets.

Foreign Correspondent, Editor, Bureau Chief

Thomson Reuters
Global
09.1997 - 12.2016

I spent nearly two decades with Reuters in progressively senior roles as a foreign correspondent, editor and bureau chief.

  • Integral part of team that won Reuters' first Pulitzer Prize in 2014 for our reporting on Myanmar.

  • Managed large multimedia teams of reporters in the Malaysia and Brazil bureaus through major global stories, including elections, airliner crashes and natural disasters.
  • Produced award-winning coverage of the environment and financial crises.
  • Ended my career in a senior leadership role in Washington, with responsibility for launching, managing and editing Reuters' most 
high-profile stories and planning long-term coverage.
 Helped lead 10-strong U.S. foreign policy team through the expanding Syria crisis, the Iran nuclear deal
 and Cuban opening.

Education

Master of Arts - European Studies

Leeds University
1996

Bachelor of Arts - Politics

Sheffield University
1993

Skills

  • Thought Leadership Writing and Strategy
  • High-quality Writing and Editing
  • Deep International Experience - Brazil, Asia, USA
  • Project Management
  • Business Research Expertise in Tech, Other Sectors
  • Strong Interviewing and Verbal Communication Skills

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Produced high-impact thought leadership content for senior business leaders that has led to demonstrable success.
  • Led research projects on Fortune 500 companies that resulted in new insights and actionable intelligence for institutional investors.
  • Helped lead an investigative reporting project at Reuters that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
  • Winner of Reuters Asia Editor of the Year Award for coverage of Afghan conflict and Japanese banking crisis.

LANGUAGES

Spanish and Portuguese (strong); Japanese (conversational).

Timeline

Thought Leadership Strategist And Writer

The Expert Press
10.2017 - Current

Foreign Correspondent, Editor, Bureau Chief

Thomson Reuters
09.1997 - 12.2016

Senior Business Researcher

Blue Heron Research Partners
2017 - Current

Master of Arts - European Studies

Leeds University

Bachelor of Arts - Politics

Sheffield University
Stuart Grudgings