Clive Crook
British journalist

Clive Crook

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British journalist
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1953
Education:
Magdalen College
London School of Economics and Political Science
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Clive Crook at the Financial Times Meet the Editor reception, Washington, DC

Clive Crook (born 1955 in Yorkshire, England) is a former columnist for the Financial Times and the National Journal; a former senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly, and now writes a column and editorials for Bloomberg News. For twenty years he held various editorial positions at The Economist, including deputy editor from 1993 to 2005.

In 2006, he co-chaired the Copenhagen Consensus project, framing global development priorities for the coming decades together with Nobel laureates and other world-renowned economists. He has co-authored Globalisation: Making Sense of an Integrating World: Reasons, Effects and Challenges for the Economist Group.

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He was born in Yorkshire and raised in Lancashire. He was educated at Bolton School, and graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford, and the London School of Economics. He has served as a consultant to The World Bank and worked as an official at Britain's Her Majesty's Treasury.

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