Mary Childs

Mary Childs is a journalist, host, and author. She hosts Mary in America, a talk show, and co-hosted NPR's Planet Money for nearly seven years. She wrote The Bond King, published by Flatiron Books. She has worked at Barron's, the Financial Times, and Bloomberg News. She holds fellowships from Arthur F. Burns (2023), China-United States Journalists Exchange (2018), and has been honoured as a Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Honoree (2015). Before journalism, she was a Watson Fellow painting portraits around the world. She lives in Virginia.