Dame Helen Alexander CBE, chairman of UBM, passed away on 5 August ‘following a period of illness’, according to a statement from the organiser. She was 60. From 1997 to 2008 Alexander served as chief executive of The Economist Group, publisher of The Economist newspaper, which she joined as a marketing executive in 1985. She was awarded a CBE in 2004 for services to publishing, and under her leadership The Economist saw circulation surge nearly 50 per...