Edward Lucas (journalist)

Edward Lucas (born 3 May 1962) is a British writer, journalist, security specialist and politician.

Lucas in 2010

Career

Lucas is non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis.^[1] Until 2018, he was a senior editor at The Economist. Before moving to The Economist, he edited Business Russia and Business Eastern Europe for the EIU in Vienna, was a Foreign Correspondent for The Independent, and produced Newshour for the BBC World Service.^[2] He writes a column for The Times^[3] and occasionally writes for the Daily Mail.^[4] He has edited Standpoint magazine.^[5]

In September 2021, he was selected as the Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate for the constituency of Cities of London and Westminster in the 2024 general election.^[6] Lucas came third with 4,335 votes. ^[7]

Personal life

Lucas's second wife is the columnist Cristina Odone, with whom he has one child; he had two children with his first wife Claudia, who is German.^[8] He lives in London. His father was the Oxford philosopher John Lucas.

On 1 December 2014, he became the first e-resident of Estonia.^[9]

Publications

• The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West , Palgrave Macmillan (2008), ISBN 978-0-230-60612-8.
• Deception: The Untold Story of East-West Espionage Today, Walker & Company (2012), ISBN 978-0-8027-1157-1
• The Snowden Operation: Inside the West's Greatest Intelligence Disaster, Amazon (2014), ASIN: B00I0W61OY
• Cyberphobia: Identity, Trust, Security and the Internet, Bloomsbury (2015), ISBN 978-1-4088-5013-8
• Spycraft Rebooted: How Technology is Changing Espionage, Amazon (2018), ASIN: B078W6LXGG