Full Name
Luiza Savage
Job Title
Executive Editor, Growth, North America
Company
POLITICO
Speaker Bio
Luiza Ch. Savage is an executive editor at POLITICO, an international news organization focused on politics and policy. Based in the Washington, D.C., area, she focuses on growing POLITICO’s digital journalism across video, audio, live events, newsletters, and thought-leadership. Luiza was responsible for the creation of POLITICO Canada, which now includes the daily Ottawa Playbook and POLITICO Pro Canada, an intelligence service for policy professionals. She is a Jefferson Fellow at the East-West Center and a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Prior to joining POLITICO, Luiza was the Washington, D.C. bureau chief for Maclean’s, the national weekly news magazine of Canada. In that role, she covered several presidential elections, wrote and produced two television documentaries about Canada-U.S. relations, and was a regular commentator on television and radio news programs. She previously worked as a reporter for the New York Sun, the National Post, and the Ottawa Citizen. Luiza was born in Poland and grew up in Calgary and Ottawa. She earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard College and a master’s degree from Yale Law School, where she was a Knight Foundation journalism fellow. She is married to New York Times reporter Charlie Savage; they have two children.
Luiza Savage