Bill Emmott

Bill Emmott is a writer and consultant best known for his 13 years as editor in chief of The Economist in 1993–2006, and for his 15 years as a trustee and then chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the world’s leading defence and security think-tank, from 2010–2025.

He is now Senior Advisor for Geopolitics at Montrose Associates, a Strategic Intelligence consultancy; chairman of the Global Disinformation Index, a British non-profit; a non-executive director of the Irish Times Group; a trustee of the Chester Beatty museum in Dublin; and a member of the Financial Times Editorial Complaints Commissioner Oversight Committee. He also serves on the Comitato Scientifico of the Centro Einaudi in Turin; is an Ushioda Fellow at Tokyo College, University of Tokyo; and is a Visiting Professor at Università IULM in Milan. Mr. Emmott is the author of 15 books variously on Japan, Asia, the 20th century, The West, Taiwan and Italy. He was presenter and co-author of a documentary film about Italy, “Girlfriend in a Coma” (2013), broadcast on BBC, Sky Italia and La7.