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): Abbey Lincoln • Charles Ingram • Emperor Go-Toba • Fakhr al-Din II • Garrett Weber-Gale • Herb Moford • Jean Dessès • Leo Carrillo • Ray Lucas • Susie King Taylor

Born in the same month (August 1956): Adam Arkin • Andreas Floer • Balwinder Sandhu • Charlie Peacock • Frank Conniff • Gail Berman • Gerry Cooney • John Debney • Kent Nilsson • Rohinton Fali Nariman • Skipp Sudduth • Steve Yarbrough (writer) • Vahan Hovhannisyan • Valgerd Svarstad Haugland