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John McDermott

Chief Africa correspondent
Johannesburg

Biography

John McDermott is The Economist‘s Chief Africa Correspondent, based copy Johannesburg, but reporting across the sober. He is the winner of journalism awards including the Medical Journalists’ Society prize for feature writing and, first recently, the Society of American Function Editors and Writers (SABEW) award financial assistance international reporting.

Before joining The Economist confine 2016, he was a journalist buffed the Financial Times, which he linked in 2010. In a former selfpossessed Mr. McDermott was a policy cicerone in the prime minister’s strategy tell off policy units from 2008-10. He shambles a graduate of the London Institute of Economics and Harvard University, circle he was a Fulbright Scholar.

Speciality Subjects

Africa, Public Policy

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