Miranda Mitra is the international editor. She used to run By Invitation, The Economist’s digital section for guest opinion articles. She was also part of the team overseeing the publication’s daily news coverage. Prior to this she was its deputy executive editor and worked with a variety of departments across The Economist Group, helping to launch a new suite of online educational courses. Before that she was the publication’s South-East Asia correspondent for several years, based in Singapore. Her other former roles include environment correspondent, Southern United States correspondent and science correspondent. Miranda’s work has also appeared in the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Times and the Evening Standard. In 2016 she was shortlisted to be the ‘New Journalist of the Year’ at the British Journalism Awards. In 2017 she received the Desmond Wettern Media Award from the Maritime Foundation for her reporting on the ocean. Miranda was educated in Britain and the United States.