- John Edwards
John Edwards (born 21 November, 1954, in New York City) is an American technology writer. Edwards has written for various print and online publications, including "The New York Times, The Washington Post, MSNBC, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Newsday, CFO Magazine, CIO Magazine, Men's Health," and "American Way" (American Airlines' in-flight magazine).
- Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman (July 31 1912 - November 16 2006) was an American Nobel Laureate economist and public intellectual. An advocate of laissez-faire capitalism, Friedman made major contributions to the fields of macroeconomics, microeconomics, economic history and statistics. In 1976, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his achievements in the fields of consumption analysis, …
- Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. He is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He and his wife, Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble , currently work at PodTech.net , a video-podcast startup. He is the co-author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers with Shel Israel .
- Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson is editor-in-chief of "Wired Magazine", which has won a National Magazine Award under his tenure. He coined the phrase "The Long Tail" in an acclaimed Wired article, which he expanded upon in the book "The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More" (2006). He currently lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and four young children. Before joining "Wired" in 2001, he worked at "The Economist", …
- Edward Lucas
Edward Lucas (born 1962) is a British journalist. Lucas works for "The Economist", the London-based global newsweekly. He has been covering eastern Europe since 1986, and was the Moscow bureau chief from 1998-2002. He is now the central and east European correspondent. He speaks English, German, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian and Czech. He was educated at Winchester College and the London School of Economics.
- Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum (born 25 July 1964) is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Eastern Europe and the USSR / Russia. As of 2006, she is a columnist and member of the editorial board of the "Washington Post". Born in Washington, DC in 1964, she was a 1982 graduate of the Sidwell Friends School.
- Bill Emmott
Bill Emmott — editor of The Economist from 1993 to 2006 — will deliver an address titled “Looking Back, Looking Forward: Making the Case for Globalisation” at 5 p.m. on September 27 in McClelland Hall's Berger Auditorium, with a reception to follow. Reservations are required for this free event: events@eller.arizona.edu .
- John Micklethwait
John Micklethwait was appointed as a director in May 2006. He has been editor of The Economist since April 1st 2006, having joined the editorial staff in July 1987. Previously he was US editor. John is the co-author of four books (with Adrian Wooldridge), most recently "The Right Nation".
- William Easterly
William Easterly is Professor of Economics at New York University, joint with Africa House, and Co-Director of NYU’s Development Research Institute. He is also a visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a non-resident Fellow of the Center for Global Development in Washington DC. William Easterly received his Ph.D. in Economics at MIT.
- Anatole Kaletsky
Anatole Kaletsky Anatole Kaletsky is Principal Economic Commentator and Associate Editor of The Times of London, where he writes a twice-weekly column on economics, politics and financial markets. Since 1997 he has also worked as an economic consultant, providing forecasts and policy analysis for financial institutions, multinational companies and international organisations through his company, Kaletsky Economic Consulting Ltd. In 1998 he was elected by Britainâ
- Frances Cairncross
Frances Anne Cairncross CBE (born 30 August 1944, Otley, England) is a British economist, journalist and academic. She is the daughter of economist Sir Alexander Kirkland Cairncross (Alec Cairncross) and the niece of John Cairncross. She became Rector of Exeter College, Oxford in October 2004. Previously, she was on the staff of "The Economist" for 20 years, most recently as management editor. She was on the staff of "The Guardian" from 1973 to 1984, …
- Samantha Power
Samantha Power 's 'A Problem from Hell' is a broad attempt to document the major acts of genocide/human rights violations of the 20th century paired with the international community's subsequent negligence in each case. She reports on the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, and especially her major areas of research- Rwanda and Serbia.
- Philippe Legrain
Philippe Legrain is a British economist, journalist and writer. He writes about globalisation, migration and European issues. He is a contributing editor to "Prospect magazine" and from September 2007 he will be a Visiting Fellow at the European Institute of the "London School of Economics". He was previously chief economist and director of policy for the pro-European pressure group, Britain in Europe, special adviser to WTO director-general Mike Moore, …
- Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman is a freelance journalist who edits Wi-Fi Networking News, a widely cited early news blog that covers wireless data networking. Fleishman founded one of the earliest Web development firms, Point of Presence Company, worked at Amazon.com from 1996 to 1997, and runs isbn.nu, a book price comparison service. Fleishman has a degree in art (graphic design) from Yale College, Yale University (1990), …
- Matt Ridley
Matthew (Matt) Ridley (born February 7, 1958 at Newcastle upon Tyne) is an English science writer. He received a doctorate in zoology from the University of Oxford before commencing a career in science journalism. Ridley worked as a science correspondent for The Economist and The Daily Telegraph.
- Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English broadcaster and writer who specialises in motoring. He writes weekly columns for "The Sunday Times" and "The Sun", but is better known for his role on the BBC TV show "Top Gear". The show won an International Emmy in 2005. "Not a man given to considered opinion", according to the BBC, Clarkson is known to be opinionated and forthright in his views.
- James Wilson
James Wilson (June 3, 1805 - August 11, 1860) was a British politician and economist. He was born in Hawick in the Scottish Borders.
- Daniel Altman
Daniel Altman is the Global Economics Correspondent of the "International Herald Tribune", for which he moderates a blog called Managing Globalization. He is also a Sunday economics columnist for "The New York Times". His first book, "Neoconomy: George W. Bush's Revolutionary Gamble With America's Future", was published in 2004 by PublicAffairs. His second book, "Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy", was published by Farrar, …
- Walter Bagehot
Walter Bagehot (3 February, 1826 - 24 March, 1877) was a nineteenth century British businessman, essayist and journalist, who wrote extensively about literature, government, economic affairs and other topics. Bagehot was born in Langport, Somerset, England. His father, Thomas Walter Bagehot, was Managing Director and Vice-Chairman of Stuckey's Banking Company.
- Tom Standage
Tom Standage is a journalist and author from England. A graduate of Oxford University, he has worked as a science and technology writer for "The Guardian", as the business editor at "The Economist", has been published in "Wired", "The New York Times", and "The Daily Telegraph", and has published four books.
- Ahmad Batebi
Ahmad Batebi - احمد باطبی is an Iranian student who has been imprisoned since the Iranian Student Protests in July 1999. During the protests in the areas surrounding Tehran University, Batebi held up a bloodied shirt belonging to a fellow student who had been beaten by the Basij paramilitaries. The image, pictured right, spread quickly and ended up on the cover of "The Economist" magazine.
- Kevin Kallaugher
Kevin Kallaugher is a political cartoonist for The Economist and the former cartoonist for the Baltimore Sun. He is known as KAL at The Economist. Born March 23, 1955 in Norwalk, Connecticut, Kevin graduated from Harvard College with honors in Visual and Environmental Studies in 1977. Kevin then embarked on a bicycle tour of the British Isles, where he joined the Brighton Basketball Club as a player and coach.
- Andrew Leigh
Dr Andrew Leigh (1972-) is an economist in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. His current research is in the fields of labour economics, public finance and political economy. He has previously worked as a lawyer for Minter Ellison (Sydney) and Clifford Chance (London), and as Associate to Justice Michael Kirby of the High Court of Australia. He has also worked as a researcher for the British Labour Party, …
- Gediminas Kirkilas
Gediminas Kirkilas is the current Prime Minister of Lithuania. He was appointed on July 4 2006 after Zigmantas Balčytis, the provisional Prime Minister, failed to gather the required support from the Seimas. Kirkilas managed to get the necessary support from the Seimas on July 4 2006.
- Charles Wheelan
Charles Wheelan is a senior lecturer in the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies. Charles Wheelan is a senior lecturer in the Harris School. He received an M.P.A. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School in 1993 and a Ph.D. in public policy from the Harris School in 1998.
- Norman MacRae
Norman Macrae is a British author, born in 1923. Considered one of the world's best forecasters when it came to economics and society, Macrae joined "The Economist" in 1949 and retired as its deputy chief editor in 1988. He foresaw the reversal of nationalization of enterprises, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the spread of the internet, which were all published in the newspaper during his time there.
- Robert Guest
Robert Guest is a Washington correspondent for "The Economist" and regularly appears on CNN and the BBC. Previously, he covered Africa for seven years, based in London and Johannesburg. Before joining "The Economist", he was Tokyo correspondent for the "Daily Telegraph", and prior to that he was a freelance writer based in South Korea. He is the author of "The Shackled Continent", …
- William Baumol
William Baumol (born February 26 1922) is a New York University economics professor (although he is also affiliated with Princeton University) who has written extensively about labor market and other economic factors that affect the economy. He also made valuable contributions to the history of economic thought. Among his better-known contributions are the theory of contestable markets, the Baumol-Tobin model of transactions demand for money and Baumol's cost disease, …
- Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran
Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran is the Environment and Energy Correspondent for "The Economist", covering developments in politics, economics, business, and technology as they relate to energy issues. Vaitheeswaran was born in Madras, India and grew up in Cheshire, Connecticut. He graduated from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering. He started working at The Economist as an intern.
- Tung Chee Hwa
The Honourable Tung Chee Hwa, GBM, D.S.Sc."(honoris causa)" ; <small></small> (born July 7, 1937 in Shanghai, China) was the first elected Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Before the handover Tung was known as a conservative businessman with traditional Chinese values and strong connections to the Central Government.
- Luigi Einaudi
Luigi Einaudi was an Italian politician and economist. He served as the President of the Italian Republic between 1948 and 1955. Einaudi was born in Carrù, in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont. He completed his university studies in Turin, where he got acquainted with the Socialist ideas and collaborated with the magazine "Critica sociale", directed by the socialist leader Filippo Turati.
- Andrew Miller
Andrew Miller is a British writer. Born in London in 1974, Andrew Miller studied literature at Cambridge and Princeton. He worked as a television producer before joining "The Economist" to write about British politics and culture. He is currently the magazine’s Moscow correspondent.
- John Peet
John Peet (b. 1954) is a British journalist, who is at present the Europe editor of "The Economist" newspaper and a highly-respected expert in economic matters. He has been interviewed and been involved in public discussions on various topics, including water management and the European Union(see references and external links below). Peet was previously a Health Correspondent with The Economist from 1986-1998 and Business Affairs Editor (1998-2003).
- Eduardo Punset
Eduardo Punset Casals (born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1936) is a Spanish lawyer, economist, and scientific popularizer. He holds a degree in Law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Master's in Economic Sciences from the University of London. He has been an economic writer for the BBC, economics director of the Latin American edition of the newsweekly "The Economist", and an economist for the International Monetary Fund in the United States and Haiti.
- Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer is a political scientist specializing on US foreign policy, states in transition, and global political risk. He is president of Eurasia Group, a global political risk consultancy. Bremmer’s books include the bestselling "The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall" (Simon & Schuster, 2006), named a Book of the Year by The Economist Magazine, and "Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States" (Cambridge University Press, …
- Vladimir Socor
Vladimir Socor (b. August 3, 1945, Bucharest) is an U.S. citizen of Jewish origin, analyst of East European affairs for the Jamestown Foundation and its "Eurasia Daily Monitor". A specialist in former republics of the USSR, CIS affairs and ethnic conflicts, he currently resides in Munich, Germany. He is the son of Matei Socor, who, as head of the "Agerpres" news agency, was involved in the communist regime's propaganda apparatus, …
- Andrew Knight
Andrew Stephen Bower Knight (born 1 November 1939 in England) is a journalist, editor, and media baron. He was educated at the Roman Catholic school Ampleforth College, where he was appointed Head Boy, and was awarded an Exhibition to Balliol College, Oxford (MA, Modern History). Knight worked at the City of London merchant bankers, J. Henry Schroder Wagg, from 1961 to 1963 and the Investors Chronicle from 1962 until 1966.
- Bruno Frey
Professor Bruno S. Frey (born on May 4, 1941 in Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss economist and one of the world's leading welfare economists. He is best known for his critique of Homo economicus or economic man, arguing that it places excessive emphasis on extrinsic motivation rather than intrinsic motivation.
- Mary Ann Sieghart
Mary Ann Sieghart (born 1961) is a former assistant editor of "The Times", where she wrote columns about politics, social affairs and life generally. She also wrote leaders, features and analytical pieces both for the main paper and for Times2. On 28 June 2007 it was announced that Sieghart is leaving "The Times" to write a book on politics, …
- Andrew Meldrum
Andrew Meldrum (born 1952) is an American reporter and journalist. He was The Economist magazine and the The Guardian newspaper correspondent in Zimbabwe from 1980 to May 2003 before being expelled by the Zimbabwean government for allegedly "publishing a falsehood".