Ron Derby

Ron Derby
Editor-in-chief of the Mail & Guardian

Ron became editor of the M&G two years ago and began leading the news publisher into a subscription and digital-based future. He began his career as a journalist in earnest in the year 2002, and over the past 20 years has worked at Moneyweb, Business Day, international news agencies – Reuters, Bloomberg and a stint at the UK’s Financial Times before returning to South African newsrooms as Financial Mail deputy editor and Business Times editor before coming to the Mail & Guardian.