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Boris Johnson, pandemics, UNAIDS, Asia, Rainforest, global, future, Europe, nicholas negroponte, embedded water, population, tidal energy, Trade, Credit Crunch, globalisation, digital technology, Flooding, online, learning, green energy
Philippe Legrain
- Posted: 17th November, 2008
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Philippe Legrain is a writer, journalist and economic consultant. His latest book, Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them (2007), was shortlisted for the 2007 Financial Times Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
A visiting fellow at the London School of Economics’ European Institute, journalism fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and contributing editor to Prospect magazine, he is also a commentator on globalisation, migration and European issues for publications such as the Financial Times and the Guardian, as well as for BBC TV and radio. Previously trade and economics correspondent for The Economist and special adviser to World Trade Organisation Director-General Mike Moore, his first book was Open World: The Truth about Globalisation (2002).
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