Edward Lucas’s expertise includes energy, cyber-security, espionage, information warfare and Russian foreign and security policy.  He is the founder and director of the Baltic International Security Centre, a new thinktank.

Formerly a senior editor at The Economist, the world’s foremost newsweekly, he was for many years a senior (non-resident) adviser at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), a thinktank based in Washington, DC. He writes a regular column in the London Times, and also for Foreign Policy.In 1992, he co-founded an English-language weekly in Tallinn, Estonia: the Baltic Independent.  

For many years a foreign correspondent, he was based in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Moscow and the Baltic states. In 2008 he wrote the  The New Cold War, a prescient account of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, followed in 2011 by Deception, an investigative account of east-west espionage. He has written three other books,An experienced broadcaster,  he is a regular contributor to the BBC’s Today and Newsnight programmes, and to NPR, CNN and Sky News.   Edward has lectured at Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge and other leading universities.Lucas is the recipient of numerous awards and decorations.

He was also the first foreigner to receive an Estonian electronic identity card, and received the first Lithuanian visa in 1991. He was deported from the Soviet Union, arrested, beaten up, interrogated and spied on by communist secret police agents behind the Iron Curtain. He studied economics at the London School of Economics and  speaks five languages — German, Russian, Polish, Czech and Lithuanian.