Clive Crook (born 1955 in

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) is a former columnist for the ''

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'' and the ''

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''; a former senior editor at ''

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'', and now writes a column and editorials for

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. For twenty years he held various editorial positions at ''

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'', including deputy editor from 1993 to 2005. In 2006, he co-chaired the Copenhagen Consensus project, framing global development priorities for the coming decades. He has co-authored ''Globalisation: Making Sense of an Integrating World: Reasons, Effects and Challenges'' for the

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Background

He was born in

and raised in Lancashire. He was educated at Bolton School, and graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford, and the

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. He has served as a consultant to

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and worked as an official at Britain's

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Publications

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References

External links

Clive Crook
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Clive Crook
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Clive Crook
interviews at

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