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Richard John Micklethwait (born 11 August 1962) is
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of
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, a position he has held since February 2015. A British journalist, he was previously the
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of ''
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'' from 2006 to 2015.


Life and career

Micklethwait was born in 1962, in London, and was educated at
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(an independent school) and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied history. He worked for
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for two years and joined ''The Economist'' in 1987. 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 to 1993. He has covered business and politics from the United States, Latin America, Continental Europe, Southern Africa and most of Asia. Appointed as editor-in-chief on 23 March 2006, the first issue of ''The Economist'' published under his editorship was released on 7 April 2006. He was named Editors' Editor by the British Society of Magazine Editors in 2010. Micklethwait has frequently appeared on
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,
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,
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, C-SPAN,
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and
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. In 2015 he was appointed as a Trustee of the
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. He was also a delegate, along with two colleagues, at the 2010 Bilderberg Conference held in Spain. This group consists of an assembly of notable politicians, industrialists and financiers who meet annually to discuss issues on a non-disclosure basis. Micklethwait was appointed
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(CBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to journalism and economics. In November 2019, Micklethwait ordered his staff not to investigate their boss, Michael Bloomberg, nor any other Democratic candidates, during Bloomberg's presidential campaign.


Bibliography

Micklethwait is the co-author of several books with
Adrian Wooldridge Adrian Wooldridge (born 1959) is an author and columnist. He is the Global Business Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion. Life and career Wooldridge was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied modern history and was awarded a fellowshi ...
, including: *'' The Witch Doctors'' (1996) *'' A Future Perfect: the Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalisation'' (2000) *'' The Company — A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea'' (2003) *'' The Right Nation: A Study of Conservatism in America'' (2004) *'' God is Back'' (2009) *''The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race To Reinvent The State'' (2014) *T''he Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It'' (2020) In ''A Future Perfect'', Wooldridge and Micklethwait resurrected the term " cosmocrat".


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External links


Profile
at ''
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Inside The Economist Magazine
Stanford's Hoover Institution interview with Micklethwait

Profile of Micklethwait from
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Archived copy


Interview with Micklethwait at the Institute of International Studies,
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Biography from the London Speaker Bureau

Interview on OpenDemocracy.net

Biography from Random House

Interview on The Alligator Online
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C-SPAN ''Q&A'' interview with Micklethwait, 2 December 2007
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