Ben Judah

Ben Judah (born 1988) is an English journalist and the author of Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin.

Early life

The son of journalist Tim Judah, Judah was born in London. He spent his childhood in Romania and Yugoslavia, before his family moved back to London. He studied at the Lycee Francais Charles de Gaulle, prior to attending Oxford University to read Modern History and Politics, where he gained a first. He speaks both French and Russian.

Reporting And Analysis

He began his career in Russia as a reporter for Reuters in Moscow, travelling widely in Russia and the former Soviet Union. As a conflict reporter he covered on the Russo-Georgian War, the 2010 Kyrgyz Revolution and the 2011 Tunisian Revolution. In 2010 he joined the European Council on Foreign Relations as Policy Fellow researching Vladimir Putin and Russian politics. His first book Fragile Empire (2013) a study of post-Soviet Russia was published by Yale University Press. In 2013 he was a Visiting Fellow at the European Stability Initiative in Istanbul.

He has since become a regular columnist on Russian affairs and London's role as a money laundering centre, writing in frequently in The New York Times, the Financial Times and The Sunday Times. He is a regular guest on CNN, BBC NEWS and Channel 4 News and is a contributing writer for Politico Europe where he reports on Britain. His second book This Is London was published in January 2016 by Picador. Blake Morrison, reviewing the book for The Guardian writes that this "epic account of contemporary London is ... motivated by a desire to show our capital in its true (new) colours: as a megacity of global migrants, some of them rich, most of them poor, few of them happy with their lot."[1]

References

  1. ↑ Morrison, Blake (20 January 2016). "This Is London by Ben Judah review – the truth about a capital city utterly transformed". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2016.

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