Edward Lucas (journalist)

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Edward Lucas (born 1962) is a British journalist.

Lucas works for The Economist, the London-based global newsweekly. He has been covering eastern Europe since 1986, and was the Moscow bureau chief from 1998-2002. He is now the central and east European correspondent.

He speaks German, Russian, Polish and Lithuanian. He was educated at Winchester College and the London School of Economics. He has contributed to several books, including "Why I am still an Anglican" (Continuum 2006). His father is the distinguished Oxford philosopher John Lucas, and he is married to the columnist Cristina Odone.