Sophie Pedder has been the Paris Bureau Chief of The Economist since 2003. As well as writing for the magazine, she has had articles published in Prospect, Foreign Affairs, Le Monde, Paris Match and Le Figaro, and appears regularly to comment on French politics on CNN, the BBC and other media. She was awarded the David Watt Prize in 2006. In 2012 JC Lattès published her (French) book Le Déni Français, which Reuters described as a ‘media phenomenon’.