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John Micklethwait
- Aired: March 2009,
- Posted: 17th March, 2009
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"If you looked at the past 25 years before this crash happened, it would be dominated by one big fact. That is globalisation."
"America feels the dragon's breath on it's shoulder in a way Europe does not. China now wants to respond as an equal. It sees it as a G2 world not a G20 world."
John Micklethwait is the editor-in-chief of the Economist, the world's leading weekly magazine on current affairs and business.
After studying history at Magdalen College, Oxford, he worked as a banker at Chase Manhattan between 1985 and 1987 before joining The Economist as a finance correspondent in 1987.
In 1990 he was voted the Young Financial Journalist of the Year, awarded by the Harold Wincott Foundation.
Since then his roles at The Economist have included setting up the bureau in Los Angeles, where he worked from 1990–1993; being the newspaper’s media correspondent; editing the business section; running the New York bureau; and, most recently, editing the United States section.
He has written surveys for the paper on California, business in Asia, Argentina, Silicon Valley, the United States, and the entertainment industry.
He is a frequent broadcaster and has appeared on CNN, ABC News, BBC, Start the Week and NPR.
Mr Micklethwait has co-authored with Adrian Wooldridge, also an Economist journalist, four books: "The Witch Doctors"; "A Future Perfect: the Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalisation"; "The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea"; and "The Right Nation", a study of conservatism in America”.
