Born in England in 1956, From 1993 until March 31st 2006 Bill Emmott was the editor of The Economist, the world's leading weekly magazine on current affairs and business. He has written six books on Japan and writes regular columns on international affairs for Italy's top daily newspaper, the Corriere della Sera, for Exame, Brazil's leading business magazine, for a Japanese monthly magazine, Ushio, and for the Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan's biggest-selling daily newspapers. He is a regular contributor to The Guardian's and to PostGlobal, a forum run by the Washington Post. In 2003, Bill Emmott was chosen by a jury of senior Italian journalists as the winner of the "È giornalismo" ("This is journalism") award, the first time that a foreigner had been given this prestigious Italian journalism prize.

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