John Micklethwait

Richard John Micklethwait

from 2006 to 2015.

Life and career

Micklethwait was born in 1962, in London, and was educated at

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.

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.[3] Micklethwait has frequently appeared on CNN, ABC News, BBC, C-SPAN, PBS and NPR.

In 2015 he was appointed as a Trustee of the

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

In November 2019, Micklethwait ordered his staff not to investigate their boss, Michael Bloomberg, nor any other Democratic candidates, during Bloomberg's presidential campaign.^[6]

Bibliography

Micklethwait is the co-author of several books with Adrian Wooldridge, 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)
• The 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".^[relevant?]

References

External links

• Profile at The Economist
• Inside The Economist Magazine- Stanford's Hoover Institution interview with Micklethwait
• 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
  • C-SPAN Q&A interview with Micklethwait, 2 December 2007
• John Micklethwait on Charlie Rose

Media offices
Preceded by Bill Emmott	Editor of The Economist 2006–2015	Succeeded by Zanny Minton Beddoes