Edward Luce

For the American cartoonist, see Ed Luce.

The Honourable Edward Luce
Luce in 2012
Born	Edward Geoffrey Luce (1968-06-01) 1 June 1968 (age 57) Sussex, England
Occupation	Author, journalist
Education	Lancing College
Alma mater	University of Oxford City, University of London
Genre	Non-fiction
Subject	American politics and economics, India
Employer(s)	Financial Times The Guardian
Spouse	Priya Basu ​ (div. 2015)​ Niamh King ​ (m. 2017)​
Parents	Richard Luce, Baron Luce
Relatives	William Luce (grandfather) David Luce (great-uncle) Trevylyan Napier (great-grandfather) Miranda Hart (cousin)

Luce at the Halifax International Security Forum 2017

Edward Geoffrey Luce (born 1 June 1968) is an English journalist and the Financial Times chief US commentator and columnist based in Washington, D.C. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Early life

Luce is the son of Rose Helen (born Nicholson) and Richard Luce, Baron Luce. ^[5] His father served as Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2006, Governor of Gibraltar, a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) (1971 to 1992), government minister, and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. His paternal grandfather is William Luce, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Aden, Political Resident in the Gulf and Special Representative to the Foreign Secretary (Lord Home) for Gulf Affairs. His great-uncle admiral David Luce served as First Sea Lord from 1963 to 1966. His maternal great-grandfather is vice-admiral Trevylyan Napier, who served as Commander-in-Chief in the America and West Indies Station from 1919 to 1920. His first cousin is actress Miranda Hart. ^[1]

Education

Luce was educated at various private boarding schools in Sussex, latterly at Lancing College, ^[6] near the coastal village of Lancing. He graduated with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) in 1990 from the University of Oxford where he was an undergraduate student at New College, Oxford. He subsequently^{[ when? ]} received a postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism from City, University of London. ^[7]

Career

Between 1993 and 1994, Luce was a correspondent for The Guardian in Geneva, Switzerland. ^[7]

Luce joined the Financial Times in 1995 and initially reported from the Philippines, ^[1] after which he took a one-year sabbatical working in Washington, D.C., as speechwriter for Lawrence Summers, then U.S. Treasury Secretary (1999–2001) during the administration of Bill Clinton. ^{[1] [8]}

He has been the paper's Capital Markets editor. ^[1] and the Financial Times's South Asia bureau chief based in New Delhi between 2001 and 2006. He then became the Washington bureau chief and subsequently the paper's chief US commentator and columnist. ^{[1] [9]}

Luce is also the author, along with colleague Rana Foroohar, of the weekly Swamp Notes newsletter, which covers the intersection of money, power, and politics in America. ^[1]

Publications

• In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India ^[9] (2006)
• Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent ^[10] (2012)
• The Retreat of Western Liberalism ^[11] (2017)
• Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet (2025)

Personal life

Luce was married to Priya Basu,^{[ when? ]} the World Bank’s lead economist for South Asia; they divorced in March 2015. Luce subsequently married Niamh King, a director of the Aspen Strategy Group and the Aspen Security Forum, in June 2017 in Chicago. ^{[12] [13]}

References

1. "Edward Luce". ft.com/edward-luce. Financial Times.
2. Ed Luce on PBS NewsHour
3. Appearances on C-SPAN
4. Edward Luce on Twitter
5. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003 ^{[ ISBN missing ]}
6. Page, Andrew (2015). "Sanderson's Dinner, 10th October 2015, Lancing College" (PDF). lancingcollege.co.uk. Lancing College. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 January 2025. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
7. "Edward Luce: Chief US Commentator, Financial Times". cityage.org. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017.
8. "Myths large and small". The Economist . 26 May 2012.
9. Luce, Edward (2007). In Spite of The Gods: The Rise of Modern India (1st Anchor Books ed.). New York: Anchor Books. p. i. ISBN   978-1-4000-7977-3. OCLC   632079998.
10. Luce, Edward (2013). Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent. Grove Press. ISBN   978-0802121431. OCLC   847780946.
11. Luce, Edward (2018). The Retreat of Western Liberalism. Grove Press. ISBN   978-0802128195. OCLC   1038065132.
12. Rosen, Rana (20 December 2007). "Priya Basu - She lobbies governments to ensure that the poor have a chance". livemint.com. Livemint.
13. Thomas, O'Gorman (14 June 2017). "The Healing Power of Kindness and Food" (PDF). insideonline.com. Retrieved 13 March 2023.

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