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Christopher Meakin is a British economist and journalist. He was born in Sheffield, on 30 September 1943, and educated at the city's King Edward VII School. In 1962 he went up to Keble College' Oxford where he read PPE and became editor of the undergraduate Isis magazine in Michaelmas Term 1964.

Early Career

In 1965 he joined the staff of the Financial Times as a business journalist, before moving to join the industrial staff of The Times Business News in 1967. Then in 1969 he became the Economic Editor of Industry Week, a business magazine published jointly by IPC and the Confederation of British Industry. After the magazine closed in June 1970, he joined Peter Gummer, today Lord Chadlington, to help establish a new PR consultancy which a few years later was renamed Shandwick. By then he had moved to become a Director of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, today known as the British Chambers of Commerce. In 1970 he moved to the Confederation of British Industry to become its first-ever Director for Small Firms.