Gideon Rachman was born on 1963 and is a British journalist.
16 Facts About Gideon Rachman
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Gideon Rachman became the chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times in July 2006.
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Gideon Rachman was born in 1963 in England, son of Jewish South Africans, but spent some of his childhood in South Africa.
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Gideon Rachman read History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, gaining a first class honours degree from Cambridge University in 1984.
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Gideon Rachman began his career with the BBC World Service in 1984.
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Gideon Rachman spent 15 years at The Economist newspaper; first as its deputy American editor, then as its South-east Asia correspondent from a base in Bangkok.
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Gideon Rachman then served as The Economists Asia editor before taking on the post of Britain editor from 1997 to 2000, following which he was posted in Brussels where he penned the Charlemagne European-affairs column.
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At The Financial Times, Rachman writes on international politics, with a particular stress on American foreign policy, the European Union and geopolitics in Asia.
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Gideon Rachman's brother is Tom Rachman, the author of the novel The Imperfectionists, and his sister Carla is an art historian.
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Gideon Rachman is noted for advocating a looser, non-federal European Union.
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Gideon Rachman was one of the first commentators to predict that the UK would vote to leave the EU.
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Gideon Rachman has often focussed on the challenges to US power around the world.
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Gideon Rachman twice endorsed Barack Obama for the presidency and has defended his foreign policy.
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Gideon Rachman has been sceptical of the case for intervention in Syria.
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Gideon Rachman predicted that the financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 would lead to a zero-sum world, characterised by increasing tensions between the world's major powers.
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Gideon Rachman has been a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and at the Nobel Institute in Oslo.