Helen Joyce is a senior staff journalist at The Economist, where she has worked for 15 years. During that time she has been education correspondent, Brazil correspondent, international editor and finance editor, and she is now executive editor for Economist Events. She has written long reads about subjects as diverse as the future of universities, doctor-assisted dying, protecting the Brazilian rainforest, the impact of pornography on teenagers and the transformative consequences of mobile technology for banking. Since becoming interested in gender-identity issues, she has written a number of articles and editorials on the topic for The Economist and other outlets.