McKinsey Global hires WSJ’s Toplensky

Rochelle Toplensky

McKinsey Global Publishing has hired Rochelle Toplensky to be an executive editor for sustainability topics, based in London.

Toplensky is the former bureau chief of WSJ Pro Sustainable Business and, prior to that, a columnist for WSJ’s “Heard on the Street” and Financial Times’s Lex columns.

She has been a guest lecturer at Yale and Brandeis on green tech, energy markets, and policy.

Toplensky, a CPA, worked in finance before becoming a journalist, starting her career as an accountant in Ernst & Young’s Calgary office.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.