Amelia Lester

Amelia Lester

Amelia Lester is the executive editor of ForeignPolicy.com. She was formerly executive online editor at The New Yorker and editor-in-chief of Good Weekend, the weekly magazine of the Sydney Morning Herald and Age newspapers. As a freelance writer in Japan, Amelia wrote for The New York Times, VOGUE, The Economist's 1843, Travel + Leisure, Departures, The New York Review of Books and more.

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