Leigh Gallagher

Leigh Gallagher is an Assistant Managing Editor at Fortune magazine, where she edits feature stories on topics ranging from Wall Street to technology and oversees Fortune editorialfranchises including the “100 Best Companies to Work For” and “40 Under 40” rankings. She is also a co-chair of the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit, speaks regularly at Fortune and other business and economics conferences, and is a seasoned business news commentator, appearing regularly on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, public radio’s Marketplace and a wide variety of other programs. She is a visiting scholar for the Business and Economic Reporting program at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. Her first book, The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream is Moving, published by Portfolio in August 2013, has been described as a “first-rate social history,” a “steel fist in a velvet glove” and “fascinating reading on changing trends in how and where we live.”