Gideon Rachman
Male, Person
1963 –
Who is Gideon Rachman?
Gideon Rachman is a journalist who has been the Financial Times chief foreign affairs commentator since July 2006.
He studied at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University where he obtained a first class honours degree in History in 1984. While at Gonville and Caius, he was a friend of future MI6 renegade agent Richard Tomlinson, whom he provided with a reference for his Kennedy Scholarship application.
He started his career with the BBC World Service in 1984. From 1988 to 1990, he became a reporter for The Sunday Correspondent, stationed in Washington DC.
He spent 15 years at The Economist; first as its deputy American editor, then as its South-east Asia correspondent, stationed in Bangkok. He then served as The Economist's Asia editor before taking on the post of Britain editor from 1997 to 2000. Following which he was stationed in Brussels where he penned the Charlemagne European-affairs column.
At The Financial Times, Rachman writes on international politics, with a particular stress on American foreign policy, the European Union and globalisation.
Gideon Rachman maintains a blog on the FT.com site.
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- 1963
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- Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
- University of Cambridge
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on July 23, 2013
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