Edward Luce is the U.S. national editor and a columnist at the Financial Times. Luce’s biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski, “Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Great Power Prophet”, was published in May 2025 and is a New York Times bestseller. Before that he was the FT’s Washington Bureau chief. Other roles have included South Asia bureau chief, Capital Markets editor, and Philippines Correspondent. Luce was previously the speechwriter for the U.S. Treasury Secretary, Lawrence H. Summers, in the Clinton administration. He is the author of three highly acclaimed books, “The Retreat of Western Liberalism” (2017), “Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent” (2012), and “In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India” (2007). He appears regularly on CNN, NPR, MSNBC’s Morning Joe, and the BBC.
