Will Hutton

Will Hutton is a British writer, weekly columnist (and formerly editor-in-chief) for The Observer in London and currently Chief Executive of The Work Foundation (formerly the Industrial Society). The analysis in his books is characterised by a support for the European Union and its potential, and a disdain for what he calls American conservatism — defined as a certain attitude to markets, property and the social contract, among other factors. He won the 1992 What The Papers Say award for political journalist of the year.

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British - Writer - Columnist - Editor-in-chief - The Observer - London - Chief Executive - The Work Foundation - European Union - Conservatism - Markets - Property - Social contract

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Hutton joined The Work Foundation as chief executive in 2000 when it was named the Industrial Society.http://www.trainingjournal.co.uk/abstract/2001/20401.htm As well as a columist, author and Chief Executive, a governor of London School of Economics; a visiting professor at the University of Manchester Business School and Bristol University, and a visting fellow at Mansfield College Oxford; a trustee of the Scott Trust that owns the Guardian Media Group ; rapporteur of the Kok group and member of the Design Council's Millennium Commission.http://www.theworkfoundation.com/aboutus/leadership.jsp#Hutton

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2000 - London School of Economics - Professor - University of Manchester - Design Council - Millennium Commission

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Hutton started out as a stock broker and investment analyst, before moving on to work in TV and radio, spending ten years with the BBC, including working as economics correspondent for Newsnight from 1983 to 1988. He spent four years as editor-in-chief at The Observer and director of the Guardian National Newspapers before joining the Industrial Society.

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Stock broker - Investment analyst - TV - Radio - BBC - Economics - Newsnight - 1983 - 1988 - Guardian National Newspapers

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As an author, his best known and most influential works are The State We're In (an economic and political look at Britain in the 1990s from a social democratic point of view) and The World We're In (where he expanded his focus to the relationship between the United States and Europe, emphasising cultural and social differences between the two blocs).

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Author - The State We're In - Britain - 1990s - Social democratic - The World We're In - United States - Europe

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He is married to Jane Hutton and has three children.

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