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Bill Emmott (born August 6, 1956) is an English journalist and editor. He has also worked on two documentary feature films, on Italy and the European Union, and co-founded an educational charity, The Wake Up Foundation, dedicated to raising awareness of the dangers facing Western societies and their values through film, debates and school courses, which launched a Wake Up Europe! initiative in October 2015. ==Life== Emmott was educated at Latymer Upper School in London and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he attained a First Class Degree in PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics). After graduation, he worked for ''The Economist'' newspaper in Brussels, Tokyo and London, becoming editor in March 1993. He resigned on 20 February 2006. During his tenure, ''The Economist'' editorialised in favour of the Iraq war, of legalising gay marriage, and of abolishing the British monarchy; and in opposition to Silvio Berlusconi as prime minister of Italy. He is chairman of the London Library, a trustee of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, group economic adviser for Fleming Family & Partners, and Visiting Professor at Shujitsu University in Okayama, Japan. He is also an adviser to Swiss Re. He is especially known for several well-received books about Japan. Bill Emmott wrote the best-selling book ''The Sun Also Sets: The Limits to Japan's Economic Power'' (1989) as well as ''20:21 Vision: Twentieth-Century Lessons for the Twenty-First Century'' (2003), ''Japanophobia: The Myth of the Invincible Japanese'' (1993) and ''Rivals: How the Power Struggle Between China, India and Japan Will Shape our Next Decade'' (2008). His latest book is about Italy: first published in Italian translation in 2010 under the title ''Forza, Italia: Come Ripartire dopo Berlusconi'', Emmott then updated, revised and expanded it for the English version, ''Good Italy, Bad Italy'', which was published by Yale University Press in 2012. A documentary feature film co-written and narrated by Emmott, titled "Girlfriend in a Coma", which depicts Italy in a 20-year-long crisis was made during 2012 by Springshot Productions under the direction and co-authorship of Annalisa Piras. It was launched in 2012 and broadcast on the BBC, La7, Sky Italia and other European TV channels in 2013. A new film, directed, produced and written by Annalisa Piras, and with Emmott as executive producer, The Great European Disaster Movie, was co-produced by BBC4 and Arte, and was transmitted in Britain, France, Germany and many other European countries in the spring of 2015. Emmott and Piras then in October 2015 made the film available for public screenings and debates about the future of the EU as the centrepiece of their foundation's "Wake Up Europe!" initiative. Emmott writes columns on current affairs for The Financial Times in London, for La Stampa in Italy, for Nikkei Business in Japan and for Project Syndicate. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bill Emmott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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