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Panel discussion highlight: Fisheries and the blue economy

September 23, 2015

Global
Leo Abruzzese

Global director of public policy

Leo Abruzzese is global director of public policy for The Economist Intelligence Unit, overseeing analysis, research and modelling for governments, corporations, NGOs and foundations around the world. Mr Abruzzese also serves as executive editor for the EIU. Based in New York and Washington, he presents the company&;s outlook on the global economic and policy environment to clients.

Mr Abruzzese has more than 30 years’ experience covering economics, business and public policy. Until March 2015, he served as global forecasting director for The Economist Intelligence Unit. He has also served for the past six years as deputy editor of The Economist magazine’s annual “World in…” forecasting publication.

Mr Abruzzese joined The Economist Intelligence Unit in London in 1998 as editor of ViewsWire, which he built into a briefing service covering 200 countries for half a million business readers. He later assumed responsibility for all of the company’s web-based editorial operations. A year later he was named deputy director of the EIU’s Country Analysis division, where he helped to manage a team of more than 100 analysts. He also served as a macroeconomic analyst in the EIU’s Asia team and was the company’s chief analyst for India, Australia and Indonesia. He moved to New York in 2006 to manage EIU’s US-based editorial and research operations, and also assumed responsibility for the company’s financial services practice.

Between EIU assignments, Mr Abruzzese spent a year as lead editor for coverage of the Federal Reserve and the US Treasury at Bloomberg News LP in Washington. Before joining the EIU in 1998, Mr Abruzzese was Washington bureau chief and editorial director of the Journal of Commerce. He has a BA in liberal arts from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

Panel discussion highlight: Fisheries and the blue economy - World Ocean Summit 2015 session 

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