Education
Magdalen College; London School of Economics.
Magdalen College; London School of Economics.
Foreign twenty years he held various editorial positions at The Economist, including deputy editor for eleven years. In 2006, he co-chaired the Copenhagen Consensus project, framing global development priorities for the coming decades together with Nobel laureates and other world-renowned economists. He has co-authored Globalisation: Making Sense of an Integrating World: Reasons, Effects and Challenges for the Economist Group.
He was born in Yorkshire and raised in Lancashire.
He was educated at Bolton School, and graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford, and the London School of Economics.