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Ms Emma Duncan

Deputy editor

Location:
London, UK
Languages:
  • English
Contact:

+44 (0)20 7830 7046 (office)

+44 (0)7764 145 410 (mobile)

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Specialist Subjects:
  • Environment

Biography

Emma Duncan is the Deputy Editor of The Economist. She has held several other posts on the paper previously, including Britain Editor, Asia Editor and chief reporter, writer and editor on climate change. She has covered the media business, the Middle East, home affairs, agriculture, commodities and the transport industry and has served as Delhi correspondent, covering India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. She has written special reports for the paper on Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, India, Pakistan and the food industry.

Ms Duncan appears regularly on television and radio programmes. She has written widely on a freelance basis, for publications such as the Times, the Sunday Times, the Daily Telegraph, Vogue and Cosmopolitan.

In 1988-89, she wrote “Breaking the Curfew” (Michael Joseph), a book on politics, culture and society in the troubled state of Pakistan. She has an honours degree in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford University and started her career as a researcher and reporter at Independent Television News. Ms Duncan has three children and lives in London and Suffolk.

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