Mr 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 his 15 years first as a Trustee and then since 2019 as Chairman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (2010-2025). He is now variously Senior Adviser on Geopolitics for Montrose Associates, a trustee of the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, a member of the Comitato Scientifico of the Centro Einaudi in Turin, a Media Fellow at the Institute for European Policymaking at Bocconi university in Milan, and an Ushioda Fellow of Tokyo College, a research institute at the University of Tokyo.

Bill is the author of 15 books variously on Japan, Asia, the 20^th century and Italy, and was presenter and co-author of a documentary about Italy, “Girlfriend in a Coma” (2013). His latest books were “The Fate of the West – the battle to save the world’s most successful political idea” (Profile Books, 2017); “Japan’s Far More Female Future” (OUP 2020); and “Deterrence, Diplomacy and the Risk of Conflict over Taiwan” (Routledge/IISS 2024). In 2016 the Japanese government awarded him the “Order of the Rising Sun: Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon” for services to UK-Japan relations.