Edward Lucas (journalist)

Edward Lucas (born 3 May 1962) is a British journalist working for The Economist, the London-based global news weekly. He was the Moscow bureau chief from 1998 to 2002, and thereafter the central and east European correspondent. He has also been a correspondent for The Independent and the BBC. Lucas also writes occasionally for the Daily Mail. Edward Lucas is Senior Fellow and Contributing Editor at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) in Washington D.C.

Lucas has been noted for his strong criticism of the Russian government, in particular of Vladimir Putin. He coined the term Whataboutism.

He was educated at Winchester College and the London School of Economics (being a member of its University Challenge team in 1984) and studied Polish at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. His father is the Oxford philosopher John Lucas.

Lucas has worked as a staff writer for The Economist, and has written for other publications such as The Times. He has contributed to several books, including Why I am still an Anglican (Continuum 2006).

Lucas's book, The New Cold War, was published in 2008. Newsweek asserted that "Lucas has built a very strong case for the prosecution [of Vladimir Putin]. And, on all too many of the counts in his indictment, the defendant looks smugly guilty".The Sunday Telegraph called it the best portrait to date of the mentality of Putin's ruling class.

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