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The Economist magazine has appointed John Micklethwait, who has broad experience in the United States, as its new editor in chief, it was announced Thursday.
Micklethwait, 43, replacing Bill Emmott who stepped down last month after 13 years in the job, is an Oxford University graduate who joined the magazine in 1987 after working for Chase Manhattan Bank.
"I have always thought that this was the best job in journalism anywhere in the world," Micklethwait said Thursday after assuming his new duties.
His roles at the news and business weekly, which has a circulation of 1.1 million, have included editing the business section for four years and setting up an office in Los Angeles, where he worked from 1990 to 1993.
He was media correspondent before serving as bureau chief in New York and then returning to London as the London-based US editor.
The Economist Group chairman Sir Robert Wilson said Micklethwait was chosen from among "several excellent candidates," adding he "has considerable experience on both sides of the Atlantic."
The Economist Group chief executive Helen Alexander said: "John's love of politics and knowledge of America and business will set him in good stead as editor of this great publication."
Along with his work for the newspaper, Micklethwait has also co-authored four books.
The "Witch Doctors," "A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalisation," "The Company: A short History of a Revolutionary Idea" and "The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America" were written with Adrian Wooldridge, The Economist's bureau chief in Washington DC.
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