Global economy. United States. Japan. Western Europe. China. India. Emerging regions.
Specialist subjects:
Global economy: major exchange rates and interest rates; business environment; IMF/G7, monetary and fiscal policy, US economy, Japanese economy, Western Europe, China, India, emerging regions, currency regimes and crises, global forecasts, world trade, country credit risk, operational risk, Basel II capital accord.
Background:
As Editorial Director for the Economist Intelligence Unit, Robin Bew is responsible for all editorial operations across the company worldwide, driving the intellectual debate within the business. This includes managing all content generation throughout the company, including subscription services such as the renowned Country Reports and Country Forecasts, the daily updated wire services, customised research and sponsored reports, and the corporate networking business. He also provides editorial guidance to the conference and meetings business. He is charged with ensuring that the Economist Intelligence Unit's analysis is as insightful and timely as possible, to best help clients make effective and profitable business decisions. He also helps drive an agenda of change within the editorial team, ensuring that products and services evolve in line with changing client priorities, taking advantage of new analytical techniques and delivery technologies.
Robin also retains his long-standing role as Chief Economist and in this capacity is responsible for the formulation of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s overarching view on the outlook for the global economy. Working with a team of 120 country and regional specialists, he provides the leadership necessary to ensure that Economist Intelligence Unit forecasts are among the most accurate and insightful available to international decision makers. This involves framing the Economist Intelligence Unit’s response to events as broad ranging as the development of Iran's nuclear programme to currency turmoil in emerging markets - always aiming to ensure that Economist Intelligence Unit's forecasts reflect the very best and latest information and contain real insight and value, as well as being consistent within and across the 201 markets covered by our analysts. Robin additionally provides insight on broader economic issues which impact on the Economist Intelligence Unit’s work on behalf of clients, and has written on subjects as diverse as international capital controls and sustainable development. Robin has responsibility for all Economist Intelligence Unit risk services, ranging from our sovereign credit risk ratings services to our analysis of and rankings for business operating risk.
Robin plays an important role in taking the Economist Intelligence Unit’s analysis to our clients and the media. He publishes a monthly forecast report on the global economy, and frequently visits clients to give briefings on the global economic situation and outlook. He also regularly gives speeches at conferences across the world, and frequently gives interviews to media outlets such as the BBC, CNBC and CNN on breaking economic news or the general economic outlook for the global economy.
Robin Bew joined the Economist Intelligence Unit in 1995, became Chief Economist in 1997 and Editorial Director in 2006. He was previously an Economist at Her Majesty's Treasury, where he was variously involved in the forecasting of government expenditure, the analysis of UK fiscal policy, and the forecasting of UK trade performance.
