Martin Jacques

Not to be confused with Martyn Jacques.

Martin Jacques (born October 1945) is a British former magazine editor and academic. He was born and raised in Coventry. He was an undergraduate student at Manchester University, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree, and subsequently studied for a PhD at King's College, Cambridge.

He was editor of the CPGB's journal, Marxism Today from 1977 until its closure in 1991, a publication which was politically quite mainstream in its final years, with regular contributions from figures generally identified with the Atlanticist left such as David Marquand. In this period, Jacques was the co-editor or co-author of The Forward March of Labour Halted? (1981), The Politics of Thatcherism (1983) and New Times (1989).

Jacques was a co-founder of the think-tank Demos. He has been a columnist for The Times and The Sunday Times and was deputy editor of The Independent. Currently he is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. During the last year he has been a visiting professor at the International Centre for Chinese Studies at Aichi University in Japan, a visiting professor at Renmin University in Beijing and a senior visiting fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. In 2009, Jacques' book about Asian modernity and the rise of China entitled When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order was published. He is a columnist for The Guardian and New Statesman.

External links

• Guardian Column - Martin Jacques
• New Statesman - Martin Jacques
• Audio: Martin Jacques in conversation on the BBC World Service discussion show The Forum
• Video: Martin Jacques discusses his book, When China Rules the World, at the Asia Society, 11 November 2009
• Video: Martin Jacques speaks on Understanding the Rise of China at a TED Conference, October 2010

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Preceded by Matthew Symonds	Deputy Editor of The Independent 1994–1996	Succeeded by Chris Blackhurst

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