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A heated discussion on the prospects for the Doha agreement on world trade liberalisation with Kimberly Ann Elliott and Vandana Shiva
Who is Philippe Legrain?
I'm a journalist and writer, based in London but interested in the whole world. I'm interested in how strands of economics, politics and culture combine to form the big picture and how the world is coming together through globalisation while becoming ever more diverse through cultural mixing and individual choice. I write primarily about globalisation and European issues, but through this site's blog and my contributions to the Guardian's Comment is free group blog I am now ranging more widely. As a contributing editor to Prospect, I also write a monthly column about business and economics. I have followed up my first book, Open World: The Truth about Globalisation, with a new one, due out in late 2006 or early 2007, making the case for freer international migration (immigration).
I studied economics and then politics of the world economy at the London School of Economics. My journalistic career started at The Economist, where I wrote about trade and economics. From there, I moved to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) where I was special adviser to director-general Mike Moore. For my sins, I was briefly editor of World Link, the magazine of the World Economic Forum, a fantastic opportunity, albeit for a disreputable organisation. And I spent three long years at Britain in Europe as chief economist and then director of policy, making the case for the euro and the ill-fated European constitution in anticipation of referendums that were never called.
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