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Edward Carr
Foreign Editor
The Economist
Writer | Commentator | Moderator
Edward Carr is a highly-respected writer and commentator on global strategic affairs and business and is based in London with the leading weekly international newspaper, The Economist. He currently provides the editorial leadership for The Economist on international affairs, and is uniquely placed to relate these topics to reflect the implications for international business – he has the wealth of experience of previously being Business Affairs Editor, covering science, technology, industry and finance. He is also the Editorial Director with oversight of the quarterly magazine Intelligent Life, published by The Economist Group.
Mr Carr speaks and moderates on a wide range of business issues including international strategic affairs, business, industry and trade as well as energy, climate change and the environment.
He has carried out numerous live and recorded radio and television appearances over the years and is occasionally invited to co-host CNBC's Squawk Box, once hosting with guests Jack Welch and Charles Elson featuring a discussion about executive pay. He regularly chairs seminars and debates for Economist Conferences and other top level events.
He also engages in client events, where he presents or moderates at customer forums – e.g. McKinsey Global Leadership Conference, or for organisations’ internal strategy sessions.
He is currently Foreign Editor with The Economist, having previously been Business Affairs Editor charged with editing 'the back half' of the newspaper, i.e. he supervising the coverage of business, finance and science. During his journalist career, which saw him first join The Economist as science correspondent in 1987 and then in Paris to write on European business, he briefly left The Economist in 2000 to go to the Financial Times where he worked as foreign news editor and then as the news editor overseeing the front page and the newspaper's news operation.
Edward studied Science at Cambridge University, winning The Bronowski Prize for his work on 18th Century French Chemistry.