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BCSIA Student/Fellows Session
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is proud to host a Student/Fellows Session with Bill Emmott, editor of The Economist.
Bill Emmott will be stepping down as the editor of The Economist, the world’s leading weekly magazine on current affairs and business, on March 31st 2006.
Bill Emmott began his career by studying politics, philosophy and economics at Magdalen College, Oxford. He then moved to Nuffield College to do postgraduate research before joining the French Communist party’s spell in government in 1944-47.
Before completing that, however, he joined The Economist’s Brussels office, writing about EEC affairs and the Benelux countries. In 1982, he became the paper’s Economics correspondent in London and the following year moved to Tokyo to cover Japan and South Korea. In mid-1986, he returned to London as Financial editor; in January 1989, he became Business Affairs editor, responsible for all the paper’s coverage of business, finance and science. He was appointed to his present post in March 1993.
Emmott has written three books on Japan. The first (“The Sun Also Sets: the limits to Japan’s economic power”) published in autumn 1989. In February 1990, it was published in Japanese translation and became a number one best-seller there. The second, “Japanophobia: the myth of the invincible Japanese” was published in November 1993 and the third “The bureaucrats’ deadly sins,” was published in June 1996.