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'''Richard John Micklethwait''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (born 11 August 1962)<ref>{{cite news
| title = Birthdays
| newspaper = [[The Guardian]]
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| publisher = Guardian Media
| date = 11 August 2014
}}</ref> is [[editor-in-chief]] of [[Bloomberg News]], a position he has held since February 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2015/07/8570504/bloomberg-john-micklethwait-channels-ancient-ancestor|title=At Bloomberg, John Micklethwait channels an ancient ancestor|access-date=27 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309183100/http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2015/07/8570504/bloomberg-john-micklethwait-channels-ancient-ancestor|archive-date=9 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> A British journalist, he was previously the [[editor-in-chief]] of ''[[The Economist]]'' from 2006 to 2015.

== Life and career ==
Micklethwait was born in 1962, in London, and was educated at [[Ampleforth College]] (an [[independent school]]) and [[Magdalen College, Oxford]], where he studied history. He worked for [[Chase Manhattan Bank]] for two years and joined ''The Economist'' in 1987. Prior to becoming editor-in-chief, he was United States editor of the publication and ran the New York Bureau for two years. Before that, he edited the Business Section of the newspaper for four years. His other roles have included setting up an office in Los Angeles for ''The Economist'', where he worked from 1990 to 1993. He has covered business and politics from the United States, Latin America, Continental Europe, Southern Africa and most of Asia.

Appointed as editor-in-chief on 23 March 2006, the first issue of ''The Economist'' published under his editorship was released on 7 April 2006. He was named Editors' Editor by the British Society of Magazine Editors in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|title=BSME Award Winners 2010|url=http://www.bsme.com/awards/5/bsme-awards/49/2010-bsme-awards-winners/|publisher=British Society of Magazine Editors}}</ref> Micklethwait has frequently appeared on [[CNN]], [[ABC News]], [[BBC]], [[C-SPAN]], [[PBS]] and [[NPR]].

In 2015 he was appointed as a Trustee of the [[British Museum]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/about_us/management/trustees.aspx |title=Trustees |publisher=British Museum |access-date=2018-10-17}}</ref> He was also a delegate, along with two colleagues, at the 2010 [[Bilderberg Group|Bilderberg Conference]] held in Spain. This group consists of an assembly of notable politicians, industrialists and financiers who meet annually to discuss issues on a non-disclosure basis.

Micklethwait was appointed [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to journalism and economics.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61608|supp=y|page=B9|date=11 June 2016}}</ref>

In November 2019, Micklethwait ordered his staff not to investigate their boss, [[Michael Bloomberg]], nor any other [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] candidates, during [[Michael Bloomberg 2020 presidential campaign|Bloomberg's presidential campaign]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/24/bloomberg-news-will-not-investigate-mike-bloomberg-or-his-democratic-rivals-during-primary.html |title=Bloomberg News will not investigate Mike Bloomberg or his Democratic rivals during primary |work=[[CNBC]] |first1=Lauren |last1=Hirsch |first2=Brian |last2=Schwartz |date=November 24, 2019 |access-date=November 26, 2019}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==
Micklethwait is the co-author of several books with [[Adrian Wooldridge]], including:

*''[[The Witch Doctors]]'' (1996)
*''[[A Future Perfect]]: the Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalisation'' (2000)
*''[[The Company — A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea]]'' (2003)
*''[[The Right Nation]]: A Study of Conservatism in America'' (2004)
*''[[God is Back]]'' (2009)
*''The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race To Reinvent The State'' (2014)
*T''he Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It'' (2020)

In ''A Future Perfect'', Wooldridge and Micklethwait resurrected the term "[[wiktionary:cosmocrat|cosmocrat]]".{{Relevance inline|date=December 2013}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.economist.com/mediadirectory/john-micklethwait Profile] at ''[[The Economist]]''
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4484125162231222231&q=john+micklethwaite&total=10&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=3 Inside The Economist Magazine]- Stanford's Hoover Institution interview with Micklethwait
* [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/john-micklethwait-great-minds-like-a-think-431185.html John Micklethwait: Great Minds like a think]- Profile of Micklethwait from [[The Independent]] – [https://web.archive.org/web/20100604043406/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/john-micklethwait-great-minds-like-a-think-431185.html Archived copy]
* [http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people7/Micklethwait/micklethwait-con0.html Conversations With History] Interview with Micklethwait at the Institute of International Studies, [[UC Berkeley]]
* [http://www.londonspeakerbureau.co.uk/speakers/viewSpeaker.aspx?speakerid=212 Biography from the London Speaker Bureau]
* [http://www.opendemocracy.net/theme_7-corporations/article_1086.jsp Interview on OpenDemocracy.net]
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=20541 Biography from Random House]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110716222002/http://www.thealligatoronline.com/?video%2F144 Interview on The Alligator Online]
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** [http://www.c-span.org/video/?202100-1/qa-john-micklethwait C-SPAN ''Q&A'' interview with Micklethwait, 2 December 2007]
* {{Charlie Rose view|3002}}

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