Edward Luce

Edward Luce (born 1 June 1968) is an English journalist and the Financial Times chief US commentator and columnist based in Washington, DC. Before that he was the FT's Washington bureau chief and South Asia Bureau Chief based in New Delhi.

He is the author of the 2006 book In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India, and the 2012 book Time To Start Thinking: America and the Spectre of Decline, published with a different subtitle in North America: Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent.

His first job was as a correspondent for The Guardian in Geneva. He first joined the Financial Times in 1995 and reported for the FT from the Philippines, after which he took one year sabbatical working in Washington, DC as the speech writer to Lawrence Summers, then US treasury secretary (1999–2001) during the Clinton administration.

Luce graduated with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from New College, Oxford, in 1990, and completed a post-graduate diploma in newspaper journalism from City University, London. He has studied at various boarding schools around Sussex. He is the son of Richard Luce, and his first cousin is the writer, actress, and comedienne Miranda Hart.

Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is an English-language international daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news.

The paper, published by Nikkei in London, was founded in 1888 by James Sheridan and Horatio Bottomley, and merged with its closest rival, the Financial News (which had been founded in 1884) in 1945.

The Financial Times has an average daily readership of 2.2 million people worldwide (PwC audited figures, November 2011). FT.com has 4.5 million registered users and over 285,000 digital subscribers, as well as 600,000 paying users. FT Chinese has more than 1.7 million registered users. The world editions of the Financial Times newspaper had a combined average daily circulation of 234,193 copies (88,000 for the UK edition), for January 2014. In February 2014 the world editions, combined, of the Financial Times sold 224,000 copies. In October 2013, the combined paid print and digital circulation of the Financial Times reached nearly 629,000 copies (282,000 for print and 387,000 for online sales), the highest circulation in its 125-year history.As of August 2014, print sales for the paper (all editions combined) stand at 210,182.

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