Josie Cox is a journalist, author, and broadcaster who covers economic gender inequality and women’s history. She has worked on staff at Reuters, The Independent, and The Wall Street Journal. As a freelancer, she has written for Bloomberg, The Times, Business Insider, Salon, The Washington Post, The Spectator, The Guardian, Forbes, and many other publications.

She regularly contributes to the BBC, both as a writer and broadcaster, and is a founding editor of The Persistent, a journalism platform dedicated to amplifying women’s voices, where she writes a weekly column.

Josie was a 2020/2021 Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia Journalism School, holds a BA from the University of Bath in the U.K., and an MBA from Columbia Business School. She is an Associate Instructor in Columbia’s Strategic Communications program, serves on the board of the Grace Institute—a workforce training non-profit—and is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Investing in Gender Parity.

Her first book, WOMEN MONEY POWER: The Rise and Fall of Economic Inequality, was published in 2024.