Bethany McLean
Journalist and Author
Bethany McLean is a columnist for Slate and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. She also spent thirteen years at Fortune, where she was an editor-at-large. In 2001, she was one of the first reporters to raise questions about Enron.
Who is…
- Bethany McLean and fellow Fortune senior writer Peter Elkind exposed the Enron scandal and wrote the national bestseller, “The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron,” which went on to become an Oscar-nominated documentary.
- McLean has also written in-depth pieces about the credit rating agencies, Goldman Sachs, President Clinton’s global philanthropy, Australia’s Macquarie Bank, and more.
- She is also a columnist at Yahoo Finance and a contributor to CNBC.
- Before joining Fortune, she spent three years as an analyst at Goldman Sachs.
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