Country of the year: the live debate
Thursday December 19th 2024
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Event overview
Speakers
- Patrick FoulisForeign editorPatrick Foulis is The Economist‘s foreign editor, responsible for its coverage globally outside of Britain and the United States. He was previously business affairs editor, running the economics, business, finance and science coverage between 2018 and 2022. He has also been New York bureau chief, US business editor and written the Schumpeter column. Before that he set up a new editorial bureau in Mumbai where he was based for four years as our India business and finance editor. Prior to that he was banking editor. Patrick joined The Economist in 2008. He is the author of special reports on the world economy, and on business in Asia and in emerging markets. He and four colleagues won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2012 for coverage of the eurozone crisis. Before joining Patrick worked at the Financial Times, where he was deputy editor of the Lex Column, and as a sell-side analyst in London, mainly on UBS Warburg’s number-one ranked European telecoms team. Patrick graduated with a double first class degree in social and political sciences from Cambridge University and was born and brought up in Scotland.
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