16 Facts About Bill Emmott

William John Emmott was born on 6 August 1956 and is an English journalist, author, and consultant best known as the editor-in-chief of The Economist newspaper from 1993 to 2006.

Bill Emmott has written fourteen books and worked on two documentary feature films.

Bill Emmott is chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, of the Japan Society of the UK in London, and of the International Trade Institute, an Irish educational body.

Bill Emmott is Senior Adviser, Geopolitics, for Montrose Associates, a strategic intelligence consultancy, a trustee of the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, and an Ushioda Fellow at Tokyo College, University of Tokyo.

Bill Emmott was born on 6 August 1956 to Richard Anthony and Audrey Mary Bill Emmott.

Bill Emmott was educated at Latymer Upper School in London and Magdalen College, Oxford.

Bill Emmott graduated from Oxford with first-class honours in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics.

In 2009, Bill Emmott received the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in business journalism.

Bill Emmott served as chairman of the London Library from 2009 to 2015.

Bill Emmott is currently an Ushioda Fellow at the University of Tokyo's Tokyo College and is a member of UTokyo's Global Advisory Board.

Bill Emmott has been a visiting professor at Shujitsu University in Okayama, Japan, a visiting fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government in Oxford, and a visiting fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.

From 2006 to 2019 Bill Emmott was an adviser to Swiss Re and served as the chairman of the content board at Ofcom from January to July 2016 when the organisation's executive decided that the Brexit referendum result made it too uncomfortable to have a working journalist in that role.

Bill Emmott 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 Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape our Next Decade.

Bill Emmott then updated, revised, and expanded the content for an English language version called Good Italy, Bad Italy, which was published in 2012.

Bill Emmott writes columns on current affairs for La Stampa in Italy, for Nikkei Business and the Mainichi Shimbun in Japan, and for Project Syndicate worldwide.

Bill Emmott co-wrote and narrated a documentary film entitled Girlfriend in a Coma, which depicts Italy in a 20-year-long crisis.