Megan McArdle is the Business and Economics editor for The Atlantic. Her writing has appeared in outlets including The Atlantic, The Economist, The Guardian, the New York Sun, The New York Post, Reason magazine, and Salon.com. Ms. McArdle holds a Bachelors in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from the University of Chicago. She blogs at Meganmcardle.theatlantic.com.

Outlining a better policy model for thinking about failures at the individual and institutional level will be the focus of her fellowship.