Richard Lambert (editor)
Richard Lambert (editor) (editor, journalist, executive, deep state operative?) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Richard Peter Lambert 23 September 1944 Buckinghamshire, UK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Fettes College, Balliol College (Oxford) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Member of | Franco-British Colloque | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, editor of the Financial Times. He attended the 2011 Bilderberg meeting.
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Not to be confused with Richard L. Lambert, FBI whistleblower.
Sir Richard Peter Lambert is a UK financial journalist. He was director-general of the CBI, chancellor of the University of Warwick, editor of the Financial Times newspaper and chairman of the board of the British Museum. He attended the 2011 Bilderberg meeting.
Early life and education
Lambert was born in north Buckinghamshire and grew up in Manchester, first attending a local grammar school, before, at the age of 13, going to Fettes College, an boarding school for boys in Edinburgh,[1] followed by Balliol College at the University of Oxford,[2] where he studied history.
Business career
He joined the Financial Times in 1966, editing the Lex Column in the paper in the 1970s. He became financial editor in 1979. From 1982 to 1983, he was the paper's New York correspondent. He was editor of the FT from 1991 to 2001.[2] From 1997 to 1998, he returned in New York and remained editor, where he set up a US version of the paper to challenge the Wall Street Journal.
From June 2003 to March 2006, he was one of the nine members of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England, which sets the interest rate for the British pound.[2]
He became director-general of the Confederation of British Industry on 1 July 2006.[2] He wrote Government reports on BBC News 24[2] and chaired the Lambert Review on the relationship between higher education and business.[3]
He was replaced by John Cridland as head of the CBI on 1 February 2011.
Event Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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Bilderberg/2011 | 9 June 2011 | 12 June 2011 | Switzerland Hotel Suvretta St. Moritz | 59th meeting, in Switzerland, 129 guests |
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090221134603/http://www.fettes.com/Prospective/senior/history_distinguished.htm%7Cdate=2009-02-21
- ↑ Jump up to: a b c d e Profile: Richard Lambert
- ↑ http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20080910163041/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/9/0/lambert_review_final_450.pdf