Editor-in-Chief, ThinkAdvisor
Janet Levaux, MA/MBA, is Editor in Chief of the ALM Media’s Investment Advisor Group, which includes ThinkAdvisor.com and Investment Advisor magazine. She has covered the financial markets since 1991 and financial advisors since 2005. In 2020, she won a Neal Award for best news coverage.
Earlier, Levaux worked for the Bay Area News Group (2001-2005) as a community news editor and for Investor’s Business Daily (1995-2000), where she wrote about the financial markets, as well as top-performing companies and executives. During the Asian Financial Crisis, she received two East West Center media fellowships to interview political and business leaders in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan.
Before joining Investor’s Business Daily, Levaux lived in Osaka, Japan, and wrote for the International Herald Tribune, Japan Times, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan and other publications. This included coverage of the Osaka and Tokyo stock and futures exchanges.
She has an MBA from St. Mary’s College of California, an MA in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a BA from Yale University. Also, Levaux lived in Venezuela for one year as a Rotary Club International Scholar.