Bronwen Maddox has been the chief foreign commentator of The Times since 2006 and writes several times a week on both foreign affairs and international economics. From 1999 to 2006 she was the paper's foreign editor, where she edited the daily foreign news pages, supervising its coverage of the Kosovo war, the Sierra Leone war, the second Palestinian intifada, and 11 September 2001. From 1996 to 1999, she was Washington Bureau Chief and US editor of The Times.

Bronwen was previously at the Financial Times, where she was an editorial writer, specialising in microeconomics, and a specialist correspondent in energy and the environment, travelling widely through Eastern Europe and China.

Before that, she was an investment analyst in the City and on Wall Street, and a Director of Kleinwort Benson Securities.

Bronwen has dual US-British nationality and grew up in London and Washington, DC. She has a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from St John's College, Oxford. She is the author of In Defence of America and is a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation.