Writer, ex-editor of @theeconomist, chair @iiss_org, @japansocietylon, @TLRHub, co-director @gcppporg
The Wake Europe Project 's mission is to inspire, inform and connect people to debate our future with the help of powerful documentary films.
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The Wake Up Foundation and the Wake Europe Project were launched by lifelong international journalists Annalisa Piras and Bill Emmott in response to the overwhelming reaction of civil society and ordinary citizens across Europe to the pair’s first documentary Girlfriend in a Coma (2013).
Who we are
Bill Emmott - Chairman
John Hooper - Trustee
John Hooper is The Economist's Italy and Vatican correspondent and the author of The Italians and The New Spaniards. He lectures at Stanford University's campus in Florence and is an honorary fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge University.
Annalisa Piras - Director
Award winning film-maker, journalist and campaigner with a lifelong passion to explain European issues through films and journalism.