Edward Luce

Who is Edward Luce?

Edward Luce is the former Washington bureau chief of the Financial Times, London. Earlier he was their South Asia Bureau Chief based at New Delhi. He is married to Priya Basu, who is manager, for Multilateral and Innovative Financing at the World Bank, and formerly the bank's lead economist for South Asia.

He is the son of Richard Luce and studied at various boarding schools around Sussex. He graduated with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from New College, Oxford, in 1990, and completed a post-graduate diploma in newspaper journalism from City University, London.

His first job was as a correspondent for The Guardian at Geneva. In 1995 he joined the Financial Times. He first reported for the FT from the Philippines after which he took one year sabbatical working in Washington DC as the speech writer to Larry Summers, then US treasury secretary during the Clinton administration.

He is the author of the 2006 book In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India, and the 2012 book Time To Start Thinking: America and the Spectre of Decline, published with a different subtitle in North America: Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent.