Bill Emmott

William John Emmott is an English journalist, author, and consultant best known as the editor-in-chief of The Economist newspaper from 1993 to 2006. Emmott has written fourteen books and worked on two documentary feature films. He co-founded the Wake Up Foundation, an educational charity dedicated to raising awareness of the dangers facing Western societies. He is now chairman of the Trinity College Long Room Hub for Arts & Humanities in Dublin, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and of the Japan Society of the UK in London.

6 August 1956

Born on the same birth day (6 August): Alvin Williams • Baden Powell (guitarist) • Bafétimbi Gomis • Bert Yancey • Bob Horner • Chris Bonington • Diana Keppel, Countess of Albemarle • Dom Mintoff • Henry Iba • Jimmy Nielsen • Leanne Crichton • Richard Hofstadter • Robert Mitchum • Ton Scherpenzeel • Travis Reed

Born in the same month (August 1956): Alvin Greenidge • Chris Foreman • Dave Cloud • Dianne Fromholtz • Glen Matlock • Gordon Singleton • John Long (basketball player) • Kirk Brandon • Luis Guzmán • Paul Molitor • Pierre-Louis Lions • Rohinton Fali Nariman • Sandeep Patil • Sidath Wettimuny • Steve Whiteman • Steve Yarbrough (writer) • Tsai Ing-wen • Valgerd Svarstad Haugland