Business Writers Series featuring Edward Luce, author of In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India
Edward Luce, a journalist who lived in and covered India and South Asia for the Financial Times from 2001-2006, weaves his own keen reporting with the opinions and perceptions of Indians from all walks of life.
Bio
Vishakha N. Desai
Vishakha N. Desai is the sixth president of the Asia Society, assuming the position in July 2004. As chief executive officer, she is responsible for managing an international organization with offices throughout the U.S. and Asia.
She sets the direction for the Society's programs in the diverse fields of arts, culture, policy, business and education, overseeing a budget of $22 million.
Chrystia Freeland
Chrystia Freeland is editor of Thomson Reuters Digital. In this role, which she was promoted to in April, Freeland has editorial control of the company's consumer online, mobile, and digital properties including Reuters.com and its global suite of websites, as well as the flagship NewsPro mobile news applications. Freeland joined the company as Reuters's global editor-at-large in 2010. Previously, Freeland served as US managing editor of the Financial Times, where she led the editorial development of the paper's US edition and of US news on FT.com. During this time,the US print edition became the single largest edition of the newspaper. From 1999 to 2001, Freeland served as deputy editor of The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper. Freeland authored Sale of a Century, an account of Russia's journey from communism to capitalism. She won the Business Journalist of the Year Award in 2004.
Edward Luce
Edward Luce is the Washington Bureau Chief of the Financial Times since July 2006, writing on the US economy, politics and foreign affairs, and managing a team of ten DC-based reporters.
His previous appointments at the Financial Times include New Delhi-based South Asia bureau chief, London-based capital markets editor and Philippines correspondent.
Between December 1999 and January 2001, he was the speechwriter to Larry Summers, Treasury Secretary in the Clinton administration. He is the author of In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India.