Gideon Rachman

Gideon Rachman has been the Chief Foreign Affairs columnist for the Financial Times since 2006. In 2016 he won the Orwell Prize for Journalism and was named Commentator of the Year at the European Press Prize awards.

Previously he worked for The Economist for fifteen years, and has served as a foreign correspondent in Washington, Bangkok and Brussels.

He is the author of Zero-Sum World: Politics, Power and Prosperity After the Crash; Easternisation: War and Peace in the Asian Century; and The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy Around the World. He is also the host of the podcast The Rachman Review.