Name Bill Emmott | Role Journalist | |
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Education Latymer Upper School, Magdalen College, Oxford Books Rivals: How the Power Str, Good Italy - Bad Italy: Why Italy, The Sun Also Sets: The Limit, 20:21 Vision, Japan's global reach | ||
Why salzburg bill emmott explains
Bill Emmott (born August 6, 1956) is an English journalist and consultant best known for his period (1993-2006) as Editor-in-Chief of The Economist. In April 2016 the Government of Japan awarded him the "Order of the Rising Sun Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon". He has also written 12 books and worked on two documentary feature films, on Italy and the European Union, and co-founded an educational charity, The Wake Up Foundation, dedicated to raising awareness of the dangers facing Western societies and their values through film, debates and school courses, which launched a Wake Up Europe! initiative in October 2015. His next book, "The Fate of the West", will be published in April 2017 by Profile Books in the UK, in May 2017 by Public Affairs in the US, and June 2017 by Nikkei Publishing in Japan.
Contents
- Why salzburg bill emmott explains
- Bill emmott the eurozone crisis and learning from italy
- Life
- Girlfriend in a Coma
- The Wake Up Foundation
- References
Bill emmott the eurozone crisis and learning from italy
Life
Emmott was educated at Latymer Upper School in London and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he attained a First Class Degree in PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics). After graduation, he worked for The Economist newspaper in Brussels, Tokyo and London, becoming editor in March 1993. He resigned on 20 February 2006. During his tenure, The Economist editorialised in favour of the Iraq war, of legalising gay marriage, and of abolishing the British monarchy; and in opposition to Silvio Berlusconi as prime minister of Italy.
He was chairman of the London Library in 2009-15, a trustee of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in 2009-15, group economic adviser for Fleming Family & Partners in 2011-15. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Shujitsu University in Okayama, Japan, a Visiting Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government in Oxford, and a member of Tokyo University's President's Council. He is also an adviser to Swiss Re. He is especially known for several well-received books about Japan.
Bill Emmott wrote the best-selling book The Sun Also Sets: The Limits to Japan's Economic Power (1989) as well as 20:21 Vision: Twentieth-Century Lessons for the Twenty-First Century (2003), Japanophobia: The Myth of the Invincible Japanese (1993) and Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape our Next Decade (2008). His latest book is about Italy: first published in Italian translation in 2010 under the title Forza, Italia: Come Ripartire dopo Berlusconi, Emmott then updated, revised and expanded it for the English version, Good Italy, Bad Italy, which was published by Yale University Press in 2012.
A documentary feature film co-written and narrated by Emmott, titled "Girlfriend in a Coma", which depicts Italy in a 20-year-long crisis was made during 2012 by Springshot Productions under the direction and co-authorship of Annalisa Piras. It was launched in 2012 and broadcast on the BBC, La7, Sky Italia and other European TV channels in 2013. A new film, directed, produced and written by Annalisa Piras, and with Emmott as executive producer, The Great European Disaster Movie, was co-produced by BBC4 and Arte, and was transmitted in Britain, France, Germany and many other European countries in the spring of 2015: it has now been seen by 2,500,000 people in 12 countries and been translated into 10 languages. Emmott and Piras then in October 2015 made the film freely available for public screenings and debates about the future of the EU as the centrepiece of their foundation's "Wake Up Europe!" initiative. In May 2016, The Great European Disaster Movie was awarded Germany's prestigious CIVIS Media Prize in the category TV-Information.
Emmott writes columns on current affairs for The Financial Times in London, for La Stampa in Italy, for Nikkei Business in Japan and for Project Syndicate worldwide.
Girlfriend in a Coma
After having written those two versions of the book on Italy, Emmott turned sounding the alarm about Italy’s decline into something of a personal project. He co-wrote and narrated an independent documentary feature film entitled Girlfriend in a Coma, directed and co-written by Annalisa Piras and produced by Springshot Productions in 2012.
It was broadcast on BBC Four, Sky Italia and La7 TV channels early in 2013, and subsequently on other channels worldwide as well as more than 46 independently organised public screenings in Italy and abroad. During the six months following its release, the film was watched by more than one and a half million viewers.
Girlfriend in a Coma depicted Italy’s 20-year-long decline as having moral and political origins, as well as economic ones. It blended his independent outsider’s view with the passion and insider outlook of Annalisa Piras, one of the million-strong diaspora of Italians who left the country during the Berlusconi era.
The Wake Up Foundation
Emmott (as chairman) and Piras (as director) set up the Wake Up Foundation in order to use film, text and data for public education and school courses about the decline of Western countries and what could be done to restore the strengths of liberal democracy in the face of pressures such as demography, technological innovation, globalisation, climate change and the long aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008-10. The first projects of the foundation were a "Wake Up Europe!" initiative in October 2015 using Piras's documentary, The Great European Disaster Movie, and a new statistical indicator of the long-term health of western societies, to be called "the Wake Up 2050 Index".