John Micklethwait

For the 1600's physician, see John Micklethwaite.

For the 1900's botanist, see John Patrick Micklethwait Brenan.

John Micklethwait (born 1962, London, England) is the editor-in-chief of The Economist.

Biography

Micklethwait was born in 1962 and educated at the independent school Ampleforth College and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied history. He worked for Chase Manhattan Bank 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.

He was also a delegate, along with two colleagues, at the 2010 Bilderburg 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.

A frequent broadcaster, he has appeared on CNN, ABC News, BBC, C-Span, PBS and NPR. He is the co-author of several books with Adrian Wooldridge, 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
• God is Back

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 Witch Doctors
• The Future Perfect
• God is Back

External links

• Profile at The Economist
• Inside The Economist Magazine- Stanford's Hoover Institution interview with Micklethwaite
• John Micklethwait: Great Minds like a think- Profile of Micklethwait from The Independent – Archived copy
• Conversations With History Interview with Micklethwait at the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
• Biography from the London Speaker Bureau
• Interview on OpenDemocracy.net
• Biography from Random House
• Interview on The Alligator Online
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• John Micklethwait on Charlie Rose
• Works by or about John Micklethwait in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Preceded by Bill Emmott

Editor of The Economist 2006–present

Succeeded by incumbent