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Mr Robert Guest
Business editor
- Location:
- London, UK
- Languages:
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- English
- French
- Japanese
- Contact:
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+44(0)207-830-7000 (office)
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- Asia
- Business
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- United States
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Biography
Robert Guest is The Economist's Business Editor. He oversees our global business coverage. His previous role was Washington Correspondent and Lexington columnist covering American news and politics. Prior to this, he covered Africa for seven years, based in London and Johannesburg. Before joining The Economist, Mr Guest was the Tokyo correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, and before that he was a freelance writer based in South Korea. He is the author of "The Shackled Continent", a book that tries to explain why Africa is so poor and how it could become less so; and "Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism", a book about how migration makes the world brainier.
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