Lane Greene is an editor at The Economist, where he writes frequently about language and serves as the newspaper’s style chief. Previous areas of coverage have included Spain, books and culture, European business, law, energy, the environment, and American politics. He is based in Madrid, after living in London, Berlin and New York.
Greene is the author of three books, Writing With Style (2023), Talk on the Wild Side (2018) and You Are What you Speak (2011), and won the journalism award from the Linguistic Society of America in 2017. He is a former adjunct assistant professor in Global Affairs at New York University.
He received an M.Phil. from Oxford in European politics, and a B.A. with honors from Tulane in international relations and history, and speaks nine languages. Greene was born in Johnson City, Tennessee and grew up in Marietta, Georgia.
