English journalist and author

Bill Emmott

William John Emmott is an English journalist, author, and consultant best known as the editor-in-chief of The Economist newspaper from 1993 to 2006. Emmott has written fourteen books and worked on two documentary feature films. He is now chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, of the Japan Society of the UK in London, and of the International Trade Institute, an Irish educational body. He is also Senior Adviser, Geopolitics, for Montrose Associates, a strategic intelligence consultancy, a trustee of the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, and an Ushioda Fellow at Tokyo College, University of Tokyo.

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1956

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William John Emmott is an English journalist, author, and consultant best known as the editor-in-chief of The Economist newspaper from 1993 to 2006. Emmott has written fourteen books and worked on two documentary feature films. He is now chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, of the Japan Society of the UK in London, and of the International Trade Institute, an Irish educational body. He is also Senior Adviser, Geopolitics, for Montrose Associates, a strategic intelligence consultancy, a trustee of the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, and an Ushioda Fellow at Tokyo College, University of Tokyo.

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