Bill Emmott

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 attained a First Class Degree in PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics). After graduation, he worked for 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, of legalising gay marriage, of abolishing the British monarchy and in opposition to Silvio Berlusconi as prime minister of Italy.

He is chairman of the London Library, a trustee of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and chairman of an online start-up in social-media rankings, PeerIndex; he is also a member of the Swiss Re Chairman's Advisory Panel; a member of the board of the Salzburg Global Seminar; and co-Chairs the Canada Europe Roundtable for Business. He is especially known for several well-received books about Japan.

Bill Emmott also wrote the best-selling book The Sun Also Sets: The Limits to Japan's Economic Power as well as 20:21 Vision: Twentieth-Century Lessons for the Twenty-First Century, Japanophobia: The Myth of the Invincible Japanese and his most recent book Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape our Next Decade. His latest book is about Italy, currently available only in Italian translation as "Forza, Italia: Come Ripartire dopo Berlusconi". Bill Emmott writes regular columns on current affairs for The Times in London and for La Stampa in Italy.

Bibliography

N.B. Where no author is mentioned, Bill Emmott is the sole author.

• Pennant-Rea, Rupert; Emmott, Bill, eds (1983). The Pocket Economist. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-26070-1. 
•   (1989). The Sun Also Sets: Why Japan Will Not Be Number One. London: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-671-69696-3. 
•   (1991). Japan's Global Reach: The Influences, Strategies, and Weaknesses of Japan's Multinational Companies. London: Century. ISBN 0-7126-4928-X. 
•   (1993). Japanophobia: The Myth of the Invincible Japanese. New York: Times Books. ISBN 0-8129-1907-6. 
•   (1996) (in Japanese). Kanryo no Taizai [The Deadly Sins of Government]. Tranlsated by Chikara Suzuki. Tokyo: Soshisha. ISBN 4-7942-0702-6. 
• Emmott, Bill; Watanabe, Koji; Wolfowitz, Paul (1997). Managing the International System over the Next Ten Years: Three Essays. New York: Trilateral Commission. ISBN 0-930503-76-7. 
•   (2003). 20:21 Vision: The Lessons of the 20th Century for the 21st. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 0-7139-9519-X. 
•   (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 9780711504691. 
•   (2006) (in Japanese). Shin Ogon Jidai no Nihon [Japan's New Golden Age—of the coming 10 years]. Tokyo: PHP Institute. ISBN 4-569-65639-0. 
•   (2006) (in Japanese). Hiwa Mata Noboru [The Sun Also Rises]. Soshisha. ISBN 978-4794214737. 
•   (2007) (in Japanese). Nihon no sentaku [Japan’s Choices]. Kodansha International. 
•   (2008) (in Japanese). Sekai Choryu no Yomikata [Reading the World's Currents]. PHP Institute. 
•   (2008). Rivals: How the power struggle between China, India and Japan will shape our next decade. Allen Lane. ISBN 978-1846140099. 
•   (2010) (in Japanese). Kawaru Sekai, Tachiokureru Nihon [Changing World, Lagging Japan]. PHP Institute. ISBN 4569777287. 
•   (2010). Forza, Italia. Rizzoli. ISBN 17044929. 

External links

• Interview with Emmott, ABC News (Australia)
• Interview with Emmott, Forbes
• Interview with Emmott, UK Evening Standard
• The Promise and Problems of American Power - A Conversation With Bill Emmott
• billemmott.com
• Why the Economist is so successful?
• Washington Post, PostGlobal Panelist
• Booknotes interview with Emmott on Japanophobia, February 13, 1994.

Preceded by Rupert Pennant-Rea

Editor of The Economist 1993-2006

Succeeded by John Micklethwait