Maria H. Aspan is an American journalist who is currently a senior editor at Inc.[1] Aspan began her career in journalism working for The New York Times in Paris and New York, where she wrote for the daily financial[2][3][4][5] and cultural[6] news pages, as well as for the Regional (Long Island, New Jersey, Westchester and Connecticut)[7] weekly section.

In February 2008, Aspan left the Times to work for American Banker magazine, where she was initially a finance editor.

Prior to her stint as national editor of American Banker, Aspan worked at Reuters covering credit cards and banking.

[8] As a student at the Academy of Notre Dame de Namur, Aspan was a finalist in The Fountainhead Essay Contest, sponsored by the Ayn Rand Institute, in 1999.

[9] Aspan is a 2004 alumna of Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.