Chair, International Institute for Strategic Studies and of the Japan Society of the U.K.
Independent writer, speaker and consultant on international affairs; Chair, International Institute for Strategic Studies and of the Japan Society of the U.K.; Chairman and Co-Founder, The Wake Up Foundation; Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford.
Formerly: Editor-in-Chief, The Economist (1993-2006).
Author, "The Fate of the West: The Battle to Save the World's Most Successful Political Idea" (Profile/Public Affairs, 2017).
A Governor (2016-), The Ditchley Foundation.