Edward Luce
| The Honourable Edward Luce | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
1 June 1968 Sussex, England |
| Occupation | Author, journalist |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Subject | American politics and economics, India |
| Relatives | Richard Luce (father) |
Edward Luce (born 1 June 1968) is an English journalist and the Financial Times chief US commentator and columnist based in Washington, D.C. Before that he was the Financial Times' Washington bureau chief, and South Asia bureau chief based in New Delhi.[1]
Luce is the son of politician Richard Luce; his first cousin is actress Miranda Hart. He completed his secondary education at various boarding schools around Sussex, graduated with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from New College, Oxford in 1990, and received a post-graduate diploma in newspaper journalism from City University, London.[2][1]
His first job was as a correspondent for The Guardian in Geneva, Switzerland.[3][4] He joined the Financial Times in 1995 and initially reported from the Philippines,[1] after which he took a one-year sabbatical working in Washington, D.C. as speech writer for Lawrence Summers, then US treasury secretary (1999–2001) during the Clinton administration.[1][5]
Books
- In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India (Little, Brown, 2006, ISBN 978-0316729819)
- Time To Start Thinking: America and the Spectre of Decline (Little, Brown, 2012, ISBN 978-1408702758, published with a different subtitle in North America: Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent)
- The Retreat of Western Liberalism, (Little, Brown, 2017, ISBN 978-1408710418)
References
External links
Media related to Edward Luce at Wikimedia Commons
- Follow Ed Luce on Twitter
- Rahm Emanuel: Captain America
- The Imperial Presidency is Quietly Striking Back
- Ed Luce on PBS NewsHour
- Edward Luce on C-SPAN