Jan Piotrowski is The Economist’s Schumpeter columnist. Previously he was business editor, São Paulo bureau chief and environment correspondent. Jan also held the position of the online science editor, having joined The Economist following a three-month stint as the Richard Casement science intern in 2008. He is a regular contributor to “The World In”, an annual compilation of forecasts that examines the critical issues that will shape the year ahead. In November 2018 he was a policy fellow and invited resident at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Centre, in Italy. Mr Piotrowski holds a PhD in linguistics and philosophy from Warsaw University, where he lectured in semantics and translation theory. Before joining The Economist, he also worked as a translator and interpreter.