Edward Luce


Edward Geoffrey Luce is an English journalist and the Financial Times chief US commentator and columnist based in Washington, D.C.
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Early life

Luce is the son of Rose Helen and Richard Luce, Baron Luce. His father served as Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2006, Governor of Gibraltar, a Conservative Member of Parliament, 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 for Gulf Affairs. His great-uncle admiral David Luce served as First Sea Lord from 1963 to 1966. His maternal great-grandfather is vice-admiral Trevylyan Napier, who served as Commander-in-Chief in the America and West Indies Station from 1919 to 1920. His first cousin is actress Miranda Hart.

Education

Luce was educated at various private boarding schools in Sussex, latterly at Lancing College, near the coastal village of Lancing. He 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 postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism from City, University of London.

Career

Between 1993 and 1994, Luce was a correspondent for The Guardian in Geneva, Switzerland.
Luce joined the Financial Times in 1995 and initially reported from the Philippines, after which he took a one-year sabbatical working in Washington, D.C., as speechwriter for Lawrence Summers, then U.S. Treasury Secretary during the administration of Bill Clinton.
He has been the paper's Capital Markets editor. and the Financial Times's South Asia bureau chief based in New Delhi between 2001 and 2006. He then became the Washington bureau chief and subsequently the paper's chief US commentator and columnist.
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.

Publications

Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent The Retreat of Western Liberalism

Personal life

Luce was married to Priya Basu, the World Bank’s lead economist for South Asia; they divorced in March 2015. Together they share a daughter. Luce subsequently married Niamh King, a director of the Aspen Strategy Group and the Aspen Security Forum, in June 2017 in Chicago.