Chrystia Freeland is managing director and editor of consumer news at Thomson Reuters. In this role, Freeland has editorial control of the company’s consumer online, mobile, and digital properties, including Reuters.com and its global suite of websites, as well as mobile news applications. Before joining Thomson Reuters in 2010, Freeland served as the US managing editor of the Financial Times. She is the author of two books, most recently Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else.