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Panel 3 Chairman Robert Thomson is Editor-in-Chief of The Times, London back to previous page |
| 1961 | Born in Melbourne, Australia |
| Studies at Christian Brothers' College, East St Kilda |
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| 1979 | Finance and general affairs reporter for The Herald in Melbourne, later Sydney correspondent for the same newspaper |
| 1983 | Senior feature writer for the Sydney Morning Herald. Nominated for Australian Journalist of the Year award for his ground-breaking work examining the country’s judiciary |
| 1985– 1989 | Financial Times correspondent, Beijing |
| 1989– 1994 | Financial Times correspondent, Tokyo |
| 1994– 1996 | Financial Times Foreign News Editor, London |
| 1998 | Editor of the US edition of the Financial Times Editor of the Weekend FT |
| 2000 – 2002 | Chairman of Arts International, the New York-based not for profit arts organisation |
| Director of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers | |
| Board member of FTSE in the US | |
| US Business Journalist of the Year chosen by the journal TJFR | |
| 2001 | Editor of the US edition, Financial Times |
| 2002 – | Editor-in-Chief, The Times, London |
| Further Positions | n the USA, Robert Thomson had regular slots on CNN and ABC News and appeared on the McLaughlin Group, Charlie Rose, The Editors, Fox News, NPR’s On the Media and a wide range of other radio and television programmes. |
| Author of The Judges: A Portrait of the Australian Judiciary (Allen & Unwin) and co-author of The Chinese Army (Weldon Owen) and he edited a successful collection of humorous writing (True Fiction, published by Penguin Books). |
