Bill Emmott

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Bill Emmott (born August 6, 1956) is an English journalist.

Emmott was educated at Latymer Upper School in London and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics). After graduation, he worked for the The Economist newspaper in Brussels, Tokyo and London, becoming editor in March 1993. He resigned on 20 February 2006. During his tenure, the circulation of The Economist doubled from 500,000 to nearly 1,100,000 weekly sales. Also during this time, The Economist editorialized in favour of the Iraq war.

He is a member of the Trilateral Commission; a director of the UK-Japan 21st Century Group; a director of Development Consultants International, a Dublin-based aid consultancy; a member of the Swiss Re Chairman's Advisory Panel; and a member of the BBC World Service Governors' Consultative Committee. He is especially known for several well-received books about Japan.

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  • Pennant-Rea, Rupert; and Bill Emmott (eds.) (1983). The Pocket Economist. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-26070-1. 
  • Emmott, Bill (1989). The Sun Also Sets: Why Japan Will Not Be Number One. London: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-69696-3. 
  • Emmott, Bill (1991). Japan's Global Reach: The Influences, Strategies, and Weaknesses of Japan's Multinational Companies. London: Century. ISBN 0-7126-4928-X. 
  • Emmott, Bill (1993). Japanophobia: The Myth of the Invincible Japanese. New York: Times Books. ISBN 0-8129-1907-6. 
  • Emmott, Bill (1996). Kanryo no Taizai (in Japanese; English title "The Deadly Sins of Government"). Tokyo: Soshisha. ISBN 4-7942-0702-6. 
  • Emmott, Bill; Koji Watanabe, and Paul Wolfowitz (1997). Managing the International System over the Next Ten Years: Three Essays. New York: Trilateral Commission. ISBN 0-930503-76-7. 
  • Emmott, Bill (2003). 20:21 Vision: The Lessons of the 20th Century for the 21st. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 0-7139-9519-X. 
  • Emmott, Bill (foreword) (2005). Changing Times: Leading Perspectives on the Civil Service in the 21st Century and Its Enduring Values. London: Office of the Civil Service Commissioners. ISBN 0-7115-0469-5. 
  • Emmott, Bill (2006), translator=Masahiro Ugaya, title = 'Shin Ogon Jidai no Nihon', publisher = PHP Institute, Tokyo, language = Japanese; English title 'Japan's New Golden Age---of the coming 10 years', ISBN 4-569-65639-0

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Preceded by
Rupert Pennant-Rea		 Editor of The Economist
1993-2006		 Succeeded by
John Micklethwait
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