Leon Saunders Calvert

President and Managing Director of The Economist Group, B2B at The Economist

Leon has headed the B2B business at The Economist Group since April 2025 which includes a portfolio of globally recognised products and services designed to empower strategic decision making and amplify messaging. Key brands within this business include EIU, Economist Impact and Corporate Network. Leon joined to lead Economist Intelligence in April 2024 having previously been partner and chief product officer at ESG Book, a sustainability focused fintech. Prior to this, he spent 15 years at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) via the acquisition of Refinitiv, formerly the Financial & Risk business of Thomson Reuters, where he ran various business lines including investment banking, asset management and sustainable finance. Earlier in his career Leon led the data operations at Mergermarket, now an ION Group company, Acuris.


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The Economist Newspaper Limited, trading as The Economist Group, is an English multinational media company headquartered in London and best known as publisher of The Economist newspaper and its sister lifestyle magazine, 1843.


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