Anatole Kaletsky

Anatole Kaletsky (born June 1, 1952) is a journalist and economist based in the United Kingdom. He is Principal Economic Commentator and Associate Editor of The Times of London, and writes a thrice-fortnightly column on economics, politics and financial markets.

He was named Newspaper Commentator of the Year in the BBC’s "What the Papers Say" awards for 1996. He has twice received the British Press Award for Specialist Writer of the Year, has won the Wincott Award for economic journalism administered by the Institute of Economic Affairs, and the First Cernobbio-Europe prize.

He has been an economic consultant since 1997, providing forecasts and policy analysis for financial institutions, multinational companies and international organisations through his company, GaveKal, which is co-run with Louis and Charles Gave. He was elected to the governing Council of the Royal Economic Society in 1998. Invited to speak at the highly exclusive and private Bilderberg Conference of 2007 in Turkey [ ] .

Mr Kaletsky was born in 1952 in Moscow, USSR and also spent his childhood in Poland and Australia. He has lived in England and the US since 1966. Mr Kaletsky was educated at King's College at the University of Cambridge where he graduated with a first class honours degree in Mathematics and at Harvard University, where he was a Kennedy Memorial Scholar and gained a master's degree in Economics. He has two sons, Misha and Sasha, and one daughter, Kitty. In 1976 he joined "The Economist", writing about business and finance. Three years later he moved to the "Financial Times", working in a variety of posts including New York Bureau Chief, Washington Correspondent, International Economics Correspondent and Moscow Correspondent.

Beginning in 1990 he was Economics Editor of "The Times", responsible for all economic news and analysis, and resigning in 1996 to create his consultancy practice. He remains the paper’s principal commentator on economic and financial affairs, and is now Associate Editor writing for The Times Comment pages on Thursdays.

References

* [http://www.worldwhoswho.com/views/entry.html?id=kal-0053 KALETSKY, Anatole] International Who's Who. accessed September 4, 2006.

* [http://www.bilderberg.org/2007.htm] Bilderberg 2007 List

External links

* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/anatole_kaletsky/ Times Online - Anatole Kaletsky] column archives