Jeremy Clift

Jeremy Clift – Editor

Highly experienced book editor and communications consultant, specialist in non-fiction, particularly international economics and finance.

Overview

Business executive, book publisher, writer, and journalist: considerable experience in running news and digital publishing operations, managing and recruiting complex teams, and in developing new media, including videos, blogs, and podcasts. In addition, I'm also at home with more traditional media, including book production, magazine editing, pamphlets, and newsletters. A graduate of the London School of Economics, I have worked around the world, living in London, Washington, Paris, Cairo, New Delhi, Beijing, Manila, and Jakarta. I understand different cultures and respect cultural diversity.
Services
Non-Fiction
Business & Management Economics Political Science & Current Affairs
Languages
English (CAN) English (UK) English (US)

Work experience

Self-employed

Nov, 2017 — Present

Writing and editing projects with the African Development Bank, the World Bank, China's CIC, the government of Jordan, and other international bodies.

Conducts writing coaching skills at the IMF and other international organizations.

International Monetary Fund

Oct, 2008 — Sep, 2016 (almost 8 years)

Member of senior management team in charge of policy communications and communications strategy; head of the IMF's digital and print publishing program. Editor-in-Chief of the IMF's quarterly Finance & Development magazine and the online IMF Survey news magazine, videos, blogs, and multimedia. Launched iMFdirect blog. Championed launch of IMF podcast service.

Portfolio

Discusses a number of factors affecting global growth, as well as growth prospects across the world's main countries and regions. It assesses the ongoing recovery from the global financial crisis in advanced and emerging market economies and evaluates risks, b... read more
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Prepared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund, this volume offers long-term advice to the countries of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia on how to enact economic policies harmonious to accession to the Europea... read more
The Modern Vat

Michael Keen

Value-added tax, or VAT, first introduced less than 50 years ago, is now a pivotal component of tax systems around the world. The rapid and seemingly irresistible rise of the VAT is probably the most important tax development of the latter twentieth century, a... read more
What caused Asia’s largest economy, once the envy of the world, to lag behind many of the other industrial countries? And why did it take so long for Japan to recover from the bursting of its asset price bubble of the late1980s? In this volume, a team from the... read more
The world is still recovering from the most recent global recession associated with the 2008-09 financial crisis and the possibility of another downturn persists as the global economy struggles to regain lost ground. But, what is a global recession? What is a ... read more

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Marc R.

Marc R.

May, 2020

Jeremy is a first-rate editor. He is careful but quick, and is finely-tuned to what reads well. He combines frankness with professionalism. His wide knowledge of current affairs made him particularly outstanding as an editor of a book like mine. Beyond editing the text, he was also a source of superb advice on marketing and other issues associated with the publication process. I feel very fortu...
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Jeremy C.
Marc, thanks for the great review. It was so enjoyable to work on such a timely and crucial topic. I felt we had to adapt in real-time as the news darkened. I am sure this book will receive a lot ...
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