Bethany McLean
Bethany McLean is a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair, a Columnist at Thomson Reuters and Yahoo Finance, and a Contributor to CNBC. Prior to this, she worked for 13 years as Editor-at-Large at Fortune. During this time, she became one of the first reporters to raise questions about Enron, with her story “Is Enron Overpriced?” McLean and fellow writer Peter Elkind exposed the Enron scandal and wrote the national bestseller The Smartest Guys in the Room, which went on to become an Oscar-nominated documentary.
Bethany McLean Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Contributing Editor
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Investment Banking Analyst
Academic History
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BA in English and Mathematics
MEDIA AND PUBLICATIONS
- McLean has also written in-depth pieces about the credit rating agencies, Goldman Sachs, President Clinton’s global philanthropy, Australia’s Macquarie Bank, and more.
- Her 2016 Vanity Fair piece on disgraced pharmaceutical company Valeant was used as the basis for Netflix’s “Dirty Money” episode about the drugmaker.
- She is currently the co-host of the podcast Capitalisn’t, together with Luigi Zingales.
- She also serves on the board of the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago.