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Astill departs The Economist for IMF

James Astill

The Economist Asia editor James Astill has departed the organization for a job at the International Monetary Fund.

He was previously the paper’s Washington bureau chief and Lexington columnist.

Astill also worked as The Economist’s South Asia bureau chief, stationed in New Delhi 2007-2010. He has also worked as the publication’s defense editor, energy and environment editor and Afghanistan correspondent.

He has won several journalism awards including America’s Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on National Defence, the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Environmental Reporting and a Ramnath Goenka Award for writing on India.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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