Edward Luce

The Honourable

Edward Luce
The Honourable; Edward Luce
	Luce in 2012
Born	Edward Geoffrey Luce; 1 June 1968 (age 56); Sussex, England
Occupation	Author, journalist
Education	Lancing College
Alma mater	University of Oxford; City, University of London;
Genre	Non-fiction
Subject	American politics and economics, India
Spouse	Niamh King
Parents	Richard Luce, Baron Luce
Relatives	William Luce (grandfather); David Luce (great-uncle); Trevylyan Napier (great-grandfather); Miranda Hart (cousin)

Edward Geoffrey Luce (born 1 June 1968) is an English journalist and the Financial Times chief US commentator and columnist based in Washington, D.C.^[1]

Early life and education

Luce is the son of Rose Helen (born Nicholson) and Richard Luce, Baron Luce.^[2] His father is the former Lord Chamberlain to the Queen (2000 to 2006), former Governor of Gibraltar, a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) (1971 to 1992), government minister, and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. His paternal grandfather is William Luce, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Aden, Political Resident in the Gulf and Special Representative to the Foreign Secretary (Lord Home) for Gulf Affairs. His great-uncle is admiral David Luce, First Sea Lord (1963–1966). His maternal great-grandfather is vice-admiral Trevylyan Napier, who was the Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station (1919–1920). His first cousin is actress Miranda Hart.^[1]

Luce completed his secondary education at various boarding schools around Sussex, latterly at Lancing College,^[3] and graduated with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1990 from the University of Oxford where he was an undergraduate student at New College, Oxford. He subsequently received a post-graduate diploma in newspaper journalism from City, University of London.^[4]

Career

Between 1993 and 1994, Luce was a correspondent for The Guardian in Geneva, Switzerland.^[4]

Luce joined the Financial Times in 1995 and initially reported from the Philippines,^[1] after which he took a one-year sabbatical working in Washington, D.C., as speechwriter for Lawrence Summers, then U.S. Treasury Secretary (1999–2001) during the Clinton administration.^[1]^[5]

Luce was the Financial Times's Washington bureau chief and South Asia bureau chief based in New Delhi before he became the paper's chief US commentator and columnist.^[1] He was the Financial Times's South Asia bureau chief from 2001 to 2006.^[6]

Luce is also the author, along with colleague Rana Foroohar, of the weekly Swamp Notes newsletter, which covers the intersection of money, power, and politics in America.^[1]

Published works

Luce, Edward (January 2011). In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0349123462.
Luce, Edward (May 2013). Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent. Grove Press. ISBN 978-0802121431.
Luce, Edward (April 2018). The Retreat of Western Liberalism. Grove Press. ISBN 978-0802128195.

Personal life

Luce was married to New Delhi-raised Priya Basu (World Bank’s lead economist for South Asia); they divorced in March 2015. He married Niamh King (Director of the Aspen Strategy Group and the Aspen Security Forum) in June 2017 in Chicago.^[7]^[8]