Edward Lucas
Deputy Editor, International Section, and Central and Eastern Europe Correspondent, The Economist, London

As central and eastern European correspondent for The Economist, Edward Lucas has been covering the region for over 20 years. His postings included stringing for The Economist in Czechoslovakia and the Baltic States, and editorial director of the Economist Intelligence Unit in Vienna. In 1996, he became Berlin correspondent and in 1998, Moscow bureau chief. After leaving Russia in 2002, he covered education and transport for the Britain section until 2005, when he started his current job, covering the region from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Since October 2006, he has also been deputy editor of the International section. “The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces Russia and the West” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) is his first book.