Edward Lucas (born 3 May 1962) is a British journalist.
Lucas is International Editor of The Economist, the London-based global newsweekly and also oversees the paper’s political coverage of Central and Eastern Europe. He has been covering the region of Europe since 1986, and was the Moscow bureau chief from 1998-2002, the central and east European correspondent. He has also been the correspondent for The Independent and the BBC. Lucas is in addi...
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Edward Lucas (born 3 May 1962) is a British journalist.
Lucas is International Editor of The Economist, the London-based global newsweekly and also oversees the paper’s political coverage of Central and Eastern Europe. He has been covering the region of Europe since 1986, and was the Moscow bureau chief from 1998-2002, the central and east European correspondent. He has also been the correspondent for The Independent and the BBC. Lucas is in addition a regular contributor to The Daily Mail, where he covers Russia- and CIS-related stories.
He was educated at Winchester College, the London School of Economics (and was a member of its University Challenge team in 1984) and studied Polish at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He has contributed to several books, including Why I am still an Anglican (Continuum 2006). His father is the Oxford philosopher John Lucas, and he is married to the columnist Cristina Odone.
Lucas's book, The New Cold War, appeared in 2008. Newsweek stated that ...
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