Edward Geoffrey Luce (born 1 June 1968) is an English journalist and the ''

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'' chief US commentator and columnist based in Washington, D.C.

Early life

Luce is the son of Rose Helen (born Nicholson) 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

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Member of Parliament (MP) (1971 to 1992), government minister, and a

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member of the

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. His paternal grandfather is William Luce, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of

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, Political Resident in the Gulf and Special Representative to the Foreign Secretary (Lord Home) for Gulf Affairs. His great-uncle admiral David Luce served as

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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

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, latterly at

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, near the coastal village of Lancing. He graduated with a degree in

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(PPE) in 1990 from the

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where he was an undergraduate student at

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. He subsequently received a

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in newspaper

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from

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Career

Between 1993 and 1994, Luce was a correspondent for ''

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'' 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 (1999–2001) during the administration of

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. Luce was the ''Financial Times'''s Washington bureau chief and South Asia bureau chief based in

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before he became the paper's chief US commentator and columnist. He served as the ''

'' South Asia bureau chief from 2001 to 2006. 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

*
In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India
' (2006) * ''Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent'' (2012) * ''The Retreat of Western Liberalism'' (2017) * ''Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America's Great Power Prophet'' (2025)

Personal life

Luce was married to Priya Basu, the

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’s lead economist for South Asia; they divorced in March 2015. Luce subsequently married Niamh King, a director of the Aspen Strategy Group and the Aspen Security Forum, in June 2017 in Chicago.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Luce, Edward 1968 births Alumni of City, University of London Alumni of New College, Oxford British non-fiction writers English male journalists Financial Times people Living people People educated at Lancing College Sons of life peers Writers from Sussex