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John Micklethwait (born 1962, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
) is the editor-in-chief of The Economist
The Economist

The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international relations publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in London....
.

Micklethwait was educated at Ampleforth
Ampleforth College

Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire, England, is the largest private Catholic mixed boarding school in the United Kingdom, it is otherwise known as SHAC from the pupils and it is occasionally referred to as the "Catholic Eton College", a sobriquet also attached at different times to Beaumont and Stonyhurst College and which was Cardinal N...
 and Magdalen College, Oxford
Magdalen College, Oxford

Magdalen College redirects here, see also Magdalene College, CambridgeMagdalen College is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford of the University of Oxford in England....
, where he studied history. He joined The Economist in 1987, previously having worked for Chase Manhattan Bank
Chase Manhattan Bank

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 for two years.

Prior to becoming editor-in-chief, he was United States editor of the publication and ran the New York Bureau for two years. Before that, he edited the Business Section of the newspaper for four years.






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John Micklethwait (born 1962, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
) is the editor-in-chief of The Economist
The Economist

The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international relations publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in London....
.

Micklethwait was educated at Ampleforth
Ampleforth College

Ampleforth College in North Yorkshire, England, is the largest private Catholic mixed boarding school in the United Kingdom, it is otherwise known as SHAC from the pupils and it is occasionally referred to as the "Catholic Eton College", a sobriquet also attached at different times to Beaumont and Stonyhurst College and which was Cardinal N...
 and Magdalen College, Oxford
Magdalen College, Oxford

Magdalen College redirects here, see also Magdalene College, CambridgeMagdalen College is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford of the University of Oxford in England....
, where he studied history. He joined The Economist in 1987, previously having worked for Chase Manhattan Bank
Chase Manhattan Bank

Chase is the consumer and commercial banking division of JPMorgan Chase. The bank was known as Chase Manhattan Bank until it merged with JPMorgan in 2000....
 for two years.

Prior to becoming editor-in-chief, he was United States editor of the publication and ran the New York Bureau for two years. Before that, he edited the Business Section of the newspaper for four years. His other roles have included setting up an office in Los Angeles for The Economist, where he worked from 1990 - 1993. He has covered business and politics from the United States, Latin America, Continental Europe, Southern Africa and most of Asia.

A frequent broadcaster, he has appeared on CNN
CNN

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, ABC News
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, BBC, C-Span
C-SPAN

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 and NPR. He is the co-author of several books with Adrian Wooldridge
Adrian Wooldridge

Adrian Wooldridge is the Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief and 'Lexington' columnist for The Economist magazine.Wooldridge was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied modern history, and was awarded a fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, also at Oxford, where he received a Doctor of Philosophy in 1985....
, also a journalist at The Economist, including:
  • The Witch Doctors
  • A Future Perfect: the Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalisation
  • The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
  • The Right Nation: A Study of Conservatism in America


In A Future Perfect, they resurrected the term "cosmocrat".

Appointed as editor-in-chief on March 23 2006, the first issue of The Economist published under his editorship was released on April 7 2006.

Bibliography

  • The Company — A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea
  • The Right Nation
    The Right Nation

    The Right Nation is a book published in 2004 which charts the rise of the Republican Party in the United States since United States presidential election, 1964....
  • The Witch Doctors
  • The Future Perfect


External links

  • - Stanford's Hoover Institution interview with Micklethwaite
  • - Profile of Micklethwait from The Independent
    The Independent

    The Independent is a United Kingdom Compact newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly's Independent News & Media. It is nicknamed the Indy, with the Sunday edition, The Independent on Sunday, being the Sindy....
  • Interview with Micklethwait at the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley