Martin Jacques
| Martin Jacques | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1945 (age 71–72) Coventry, England, Great Britain, U.K |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | King Henry VIII School, Coventry |
| Alma mater |
University of Manchester (B.A.) University of Cambridge (PhD) |
| Occupation | Editor, academic, author |
| Website | MartinJacques |
Martin Jacques (born 1945) is a British journalist and academic.
Jacques was born in October 1945 in the city of Coventry (then in Warwickshire, now in the West Midlands), and was brought up there.
Jacques was educated at King Henry VIII School, an independent school in Coventry (at the time a partly fee-paying boys' direct grant grammar school), followed by the University of Manchester, where he graduated with a first-class Honours degree, and subsequently at King's College, Cambridge, where he studied for a PhD.
Jacques was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, becoming, in his own words, "a member of its Executive Committee, probably the youngest member ever at about twenty-two". He was editor of the party's journal, Marxism Today, from 1977 until its closure in 1991. In this period, he was the co-editor or co-author of The Forward March of Labour Halted? (1981), The Politics of Thatcherism (1983) and New Times (1989).
Jacques was a co-founder of the think-tank Demos.
He has been a columnist for The Times and The Sunday Times and was deputy editor of The Independent.
Jacques is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre.
He was a visiting professor at the International Centre for Chinese Studies at Aichi University in Japan, a visiting professor at Renmin University in Beijing and a senior visiting fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
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