Josie Cox is a journalist, author and broadcaster. She’s worked on staff for Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and The Independent. As a freelancer, she’s written for Bloomberg, Business Insider, Salon, The Washington Post, The Spectator, Guardian and many other publications. Josie has appeared on CNN, ABC, PBS, CNBC, public radio and a host of other networks. She regularly contributes to the BBC, both as a writer and broadcaster, and is a founding editor of The Persistent, for which she writes weekly. 

She was a 2020/2021 Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia Journalism School in New York, and holds a BA from the University of Bath in the U.K. and an MBA from Columbia Business School. She’s also an Associate Instructor within the Strategic Communications program at Columbia’s School of Professional Studies and currently serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on Investing in Gender Parity. Josie’s first book, WOMEN MONEY POWER, charts the quest for women’s economic equality in America since World War II through the lives of unsung heroes and trailblazers.