{"id":15243,"date":"2015-10-28T11:36:39","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T11:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=15243"},"modified":"2015-11-05T10:19:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T03:19:37","slug":"james-astill","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/speaker\/james-astill\/","title":{"rendered":"James Astill"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington Correspondent, The Economist","protected":false},"featured_media":15244,"menu_order":16,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15243","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","speaker-category-plenary-speakers"],"acf":{"new_ordering":"3","last_name":"Astill ","displayed_in_speaker_list":true,"displayed_on_homepage":false,"expanded_content":"<p>James Astill is the Washington Correspondent of The Economist. He was formerly the Energy and Environment Editor, leading the magazine\u2019s coverage of climate change, oceans and forests. In 2010 he wrote a special report on the world\u2019s forests, researched in Indonesia, Uganda, India, Mexico and Brazil, that won the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment. He retains a strong interest in global forest issues, about which he continues to write and speak widely. He has also worked as The Economist\u2019s Political Editor and Bagehot Columnist, South Asia Bureau Chief, International Security Editor, Afghanistan &amp; Pakistan Correspondent, and Africa Correspondent. He has won several major awards for journalism, including the Gerald Ford Prize for Reporting on US Security, and for his best-selling book \u2018The Great Tamasha : Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India\u2019. He was educated at the universities of Oxford and Tokyo and lives in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n","social_link":"","video_link":false},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/15243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.globallandscapesforum.org\/glf-2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}