Edward Lucas

Deputy Editor, Central and Eastern Europe Correspondent for the Economist

Edward Lucas is currently Deputy Editor, International Section, Central and Eastern Europe correspondent for The Economist. He has been covering central and Eastern Europe since 1986. He was based in the Baltic states from 1990 to 1994, covering the collapse of the Soviet Union and, from 1992, as the managing editor of The Baltic Independent, a weekly English-language newspaper published in Tallinn. He holds a BSc from the London School of Economics, and studied Polish at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow. Edward Lucas offers uniquely valuable insights into the political and economic climate of the former communist countries and how current trends will affect the West. He also is an expert on energy security and on Russian foreign and security policy. Edward is the author of an important, sobering and controversial book about how the new Russia threatens the world, especially economically, and what the world should be doing about it “The New Cold War”. The New Cold War: Putin’s Russia and the Threat to the West looks penetratingly at how the Kremlin has used the tools of autocracy and their new energy wealth to build a popular ‘stability’ at home and extend dangerous power back into its former satellites and beyond.