Ben Judah

Ben Judah (born 1988) is a British-French journalist and the author of This Is London and Fragile Empire.

The son of journalist Tim Judah, Judah was born in London. He spent his childhood in Romania and Yugoslavia, where he attended the Lycée Français Anna de Noailles and the École Française de Belgrade before his family moved back to Britain. Back in London he studied at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, prior to attending Oxford University to read Modern History and Politics, where he gained a first. He speaks both French and Russian.

Judah began his career in Russia as a reporter for Reuters in Moscow, travelling widely in Russia and the former Soviet Union. As a conflict reporter he covered the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, the 2010 Kyrgyz Revolution and the 2011 Tunisian Revolution. Since 2008 he has been a regular contributor to Standpoint (magazine) reporting extensively from the Caucasus, Siberia, Central Asia and Xinjiang.

In 2010 he joined the European Council on Foreign Relations, a think-tank, as a Policy Fellow researching Vladimir Putin and Russian politics. His report Dealing With A Post-BRIC Russia was reviewed in the Financial Times by John Lloyd, who summarized it as arguing "Russia is no longer to be counted with Brazil, India and China a rapidly growing state." In 2013 he was a Visiting Fellow at the European Stability Initiative in Istanbul, researching Russo-Turkish relations.

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