Edward Lucas

Edward Lucas is (2012) the International Editor of The Economist (the UK magazine).

From the Henry Jackson Society event profile:
 * Edward Lucas is the Central and Eastern European correspondent for The Economist and is Editor of the International section. Having covered Russia and Central and Eastern Europe for more than 20 years as a journalist, 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: 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. Besides The Economist, he has occupied several other European desks at the world's foremost news weekly, including Moscow Bureau Chief from 1998 to 2002. He studied economics at the London School of Economics and speaks five languages—German, Russian, Polish, Czech and Lithuanian. He's been a foreign correspondent for The Independent, the BBC World Service, and a producer at BBC Radio. He also was a major shareholder and Managing Editor of The Baltic Independent, an English-language weekly in the Baltic States.