American Business Group Rome

Speaker for September 2017 Lunch

Deborah Ball

Deborah Ball is Bureau Chief, Southern Europe at The Wall Street Journal. She has been a journalist for 21 years. From 1994 until 1997 she worked at Dow Jones Newswires, both in Milan and Rome, where she covered Italian business, politics, and finance.

Since 1997 she has been a reporter with the Wall Street Journal and was the Milan correspondent for the paper between 1997 and 2002, covering Italian business as well as European luxury goods. Between 2002 and 2007, she covered European food and beverage companies from London. She has been the WSJ’s Switzerland correspondent from Zurich.

In February 2010, she published House of Versace: The Untold Story of Genius, Murder and Survival (Random House), the first English-language biography of the Versace family and fashion house.

Deborah's contact details:

• Email: deborah.ball gmail.com (add missing character)
• Email: deborah.ball wsj.com (add missing character)
• Cell: +39 333 38 66 028

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