| Edward Luce | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 1, 1968 Sussex |
| Occupation | Author, Newspaper correspondent, Newspaper Bureau Chief and Columnist |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | 2006 |
| Genres | Non-fiction, Travel |
| Subjects | India |
| Spouse(s) | Priya Basu |
| Relative(s) | Richard Luce, Baron Luce |
Edward Luce (born 1 June 1968[1]) is the Washington bureau chief of the Financial Times, London. Earlier he was their South Asia Bureau Chief based at New Delhi.[2] He is married to Priya Basu.[3] Basu is Manager, Multilateral and Innovative Financing at the World Bank[4], and was formerly the Bank's Lead Economist for South Asia.[5]
He is the son of the Conservative politician Richard Luce, Lord Luce, former Lord Chamberlain in the Royal Household of HM The Queen. Luce studied at various boarding schools around Sussex. He graduated in politics, philosophy and economics from New College, Oxford at the University of Oxford, and did his post graduation degree in newspaper journalism from City University, London.[6]
His first job was as a correspondent for The Guardian at Geneva. In 1995 he joined the Financial Times. He first reported for the FT from the Philippines after which he took one year sabbatical working in Washington DC as the speech writer to Larry Summers, then US treasury secretary (1999–2001) during the Clinton administration.[6]
He is the author of the book In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India (2006).