Edward Lucas

Edward Lucas is the international section editor at The Economist, the world’s foremost newsweekly, where he has covered the central and eastern European region for over 25 years. He is the author of “The New Cold War” (2008), a prescient account of Vladimir Putin’s Russia; “Deception” (2011), an investigative account of east-west espionage; and “The Snowden Operation” (2014), which was published as an e-book. He is a regular contributor to BBC’s “Today” and “Newsnight” and to NPR, CNN, and Sky News. Lucas is regularly cited by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the top 100 Twitterati. For many years, as a foreign correspondent, he was based in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Moscow, and the Baltic States. His weekly column for European Voice (Brussels) has appeared since 2005; he also writes for the Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Foreign Policy, and Standpoint. As well as working for The Independent, the BBC, and The Sunday Times, he co-founded an English-language weekly in Tallinn, Estonia: The Baltic Independent.