Edward Chancellor

Edward Chancellor is a financial historian, journalist and investment strategist. After reading history at Cambridge and Oxford, he worked for Lazard Brothers and until 2014 was a senior member of the asset allocation team at GMO. He is a currently a columnist for Reuters Breakingviews and has contributed to the Wall Street Journal, Times Literary Supplement and the Financial Times. In 2008, he received the George Polk Award for financial reporting for his article "Ponzi Nation" in Institutional Investor magazine.

Alongside Devil Take the Hindmost (a 1998 New York Times Book of the Year), Chancellor is also the author of The Price of Time (Winner of the 2023 Hayek Prize) and, with Jeremy Grantham, of The Making of a Permabear (2026).