LONDON-Business Insurance has made several changes to its London editorial staff.

Sarah Goddard has been promoted to London bureau chief, while Stacy Shapiro has been named senior editor-international. Edwin Unsworth has joined the staff as associate editor.

In her new position, Ms. Shapiro will focus on reporting, after assuming a reduced work schedule to spend more time with her family. She previously was international editor.

Ms. Shapiro, 41, joined BI in Chicago in February 1980 as an editorial assistant and was promoted to associate editor in October 1980. In January 1981, she moved to London and opened the magazine's bureau there. She was promoted to international editor in 1986. Prior to that, she worked for CBS Publications/Woman's Day in 1979 and Chicago Lawyer from 1979 to 1980.

Ms. Shapiro holds a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

She can be reached at 44-171-457-1426.

Ms. Goddard, 31, will continue reporting but also will manage the resources of BI's London bureau and international correspondents. She previously was an associate editor, a post she has held since joining BI in 1995.

Prior to joining BI, Ms. Goddard was an assistant editor for two years at One Lime Street, the Lloyd's of London magazine for its members. Before that, she was an assistant editor on two other Lloyd's publications.

She has won several writing awards from the British Assn. of Communicators in Business and the International Assn. of Business Communicators. She studied psychology at the University of Manchester in Manchester, England. In 1996, she was named a Freewoman of the City of London.

She can be reached in London at 44-171-457-1422.

Mr. Unsworth, 48, joins BI after several years as a free-lance correspondent.

He was the London correspondent for the Journal of Commerce from 1974 to 1990. He next was London correspondent for VWD Financial News from 1990 to 1992, was promoted to London bureau chief in 1992 and continued in that role until 1994. In 1994, he embarked on a free-lance journalism career.

Mr. Unsworth graduated with honors from St. Bonaventure University in Olean, N.Y., with bachelor of arts degrees in English and economics.

He can be reached at 44-171-457-1425.