Steve LeVine
Steve LeVine is a writer, journalist and blogger. He is Washington Correspondent for Quartz, a global financial startup by The Atlantic Company, where he writes about the geopolitics of energy and technology, and a Future Tense Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, where he teaches energy security in the graduate-level Security Studies Program. Previously, he was a foreign correspondent for eighteen years in the former Soviet Union, Pakistan and the Philippines, for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Financial Times and Newsweek. He formerly wrote The Oil and the Glory, a blog on energy and geopolitics at Foreign Policy magazine. LeVine is married to Nurilda Nurlybayeva and has two daughters. He has published two books: The Oil and the Glory (2007) which tells the story of the struggle for fortune, glory and power on the Caspian Sea; and Putin's Labyrinth (2008), a profile of Russia through the life and death of a half-dozen Russians. He is working on a new book on the geopolitics of advanced batteries.
Biography
LeVine has lived in Washington, D.C. since 2008. Previously he lived in Central Asia and the Caucasus for 11 years - starting two weeks after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He led the regional bureau of The Wall Street Journal, and before that The New York Times.
Prior to that, he lived in Pakistan from 1988–1991, and before that he was based in Manila from 1985-1988. As of 2007, LeVine has been a regular guest speaker for entities such as Google, the World Affairs Council, and various universities. Steve was also a good friend of slain colleague Daniel Pearl. After the kidnapping he flew to Pakistan to investigate what had happened to his friend. LeVine would later help Mariane Pearl with the Daniel Pearl Foundation. LeVine is working on a new book on the geopolitics of technology, focused on advanced batteries and the scientists who develop them.
Works
- Steve LeVine, The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea, Random House, New York, 2007. 496 pp. ISBN 978-0-375-50614-7
- Steve LeVine, Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia, Random House, New York, 2008. 224 pp. ISBN 978-1-4000-6685-8