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Speaker's Biography:
John Andrews
West Coast Editor and Bureau Chief, The Economist
John Andrews is the West Coast Editor and Bureau Chief of The Economist. Having been with the magazine for the past twenty-one years, he has worked in London, Singapore, Hong Kong, Brussels, Washington D.C., Paris and now Los Angeles. Andrews began his career with The Economist as industry editor, responsible for the magazine’s coverage of such stories as airline and telecomm deregulation in the U.S., privatization in Thatcher’s Britain, the events of Tiananmen Square, the expansion of the European Union, and the Clinton Administration in the United States. Before joining The Economist, Andrews spent six years with The Guardian and led the paper’s coverage of OPEC from 1979-82. Working for NBC News, he covered the Middle East peace-shuttle of Henry Kissinger and the first year of the Lebanese civil war. He has interviewed such leading personalities as Muammar Gadhafy, Yasser Arafat and Ezer Weitzman. Andrews has written two books on Asia, co-authored a book on Europe and contributed chapters to other books, including the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His surveys in The Economist have covered subjects as diverse as civil aerospace and the world of sport.
Panel:
Europe: What Path Will it Take? »
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