Gideon Rachman

Gideon Rachman (born 1963) 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.

He started his career with the BBC World Service in 1984. From 1987 to 1988, he was a visiting fellow and Fulbright scholar at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. During the next two years 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 wrote the "Charlemagne" European-affairs column. In his last position at "The Economist", he was editor of the business section. [ [http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/recruit072.shtml Economist journalist joins the Financial times] ]

At "The Financial Times", Rachman writes mainly on American foreign policy, the European Union and globalisation.

He has in the past also written articles as a freelancer for Prospect Magazine and was a contributing editor to The Washington Quarterly from 1996-2006. He also made regular appearances on TV and radio and has been a speaker at conferences and academic and business events.

Gideon Rachman maintains a [http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/ blog] on the [http://www.ft.com/home/uk FT.com] site. [cite web
last = Rachman
first = Gideon
title = Gideon Rachman's blog opening statement
url = http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2006/08/about_this_blog.html
accessdate = 2007-08-31 ]

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