Gerard Baker
Gerard Baker is the Deputy editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal.[1]
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Career
Baker received a First Class Honours degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Corpus Christi College at Oxford University.
- His first job after graduation was at the Bank of England. From 1988 to 1994, he worked at the BBC, initially as a producer in London and New York, and then as Economics Correspondent. In 1994, he joined the Financial Times, where he was Tokyo Correspondent, US Economics Correspondent, and Washington Bureau Chief and Associate Editor.[2]
Baker joined the Times in 2004 serving as the paper's US editor and assistant editor. He also wrote a weekly op-ed column on US affairs. He was appointed Deputy editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal in November 2004.[3]
This appointment was controversial in some quarters, because Baker's right-wing commentary was seen to be at odds with an American tradition of editorial objectivity.[4]
Views
On Iran
- THE UNIMAGINABLE but ultimately inescapable truth is that we are going to have to get ready for war with Iran. Being of a free-speaking, free-thinking disposition, we generally find in the West that hand-wringing, finger-pointing and second-guessing come more easily to us than cold, strategic thinking. Confronted with nightmarish perils we instinctively choose to seize the opportunity to blame each other, cursing our domestic opponents for the situation they’ve put us in. [5]
