

During his career, Jim has had extensive international experience, including living in the UK and Germany. He also amassed a breadth of experience at Merck, where he led the R&D and Commercial IT organizations, and SmithKline Beecham, where he was a bench scientist before transitioning to IT. In addition, he had nine years of experience working as Vice President and CIO for Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, where he advanced technology throughout the company’s R&D organization. Previously, Jim served as CIO at Monsanto for five years before the company was acquired by Bayer. Jim and the Information Technology organizations he has led have received industry accolades for their contributions in leadership, application of technology to deliver substantial business value, best places to work in IT, and support of STEM for emerging talent. In this role, he inspired teams across the world to use digital innovation and data science to transform and deliver world-class products and services sustainably. Jim joined Johnson & Johnson from Bayer Crop Science, a $20 billion division of Bayer, where he served as a member of the Executive Leadership Team and as CIO and Head of Digital Transformation. Based at the company headquarters in New Jersey, Jim is responsible for accelerating Johnson & Johnson’s business outcomes and advancing human health with technology. Jim Swanson is a global business and technology leader and Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer, and member of the Executive Committee for Johnson & Johnson. He was previously at the Economist Intelligence Unit, sister company to The Economist. He is the author of Smart Money (Basic Books, 2015) on the good that finance can do. He has written special reports on the financial crisis, the housing market, financial innovation, lifelong education and brain-machine interfaces, as well as feature stories on everything from the Spartathlon endurance race in Greece to Britain’s bloodiest-ever battle. He is also the author of the weekly Bartleby column on management and working life, where he has written on everything from the lessons of The Beatles for business to the best way to run meetings.Īndrew has been the paper’s business-affairs editor, the first head of its data-journalism team, Americas editor, finance editor and banking correspondent, having joined The Economist as management correspondent in February 2007. His responsibilities include running the newsdesk and Espresso teams working with product managers on the development of The Economist’s app, website and newsletters and building out the audience teams. Andrew Palmer is the executive editor of The Economist, in which role he leads the newspaper’s digital transformation.
