James Crabtree — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Author of 'The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age' (2018), shortlisted for the FT / McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
Currently a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Serves as a Senior Fellow at the Asia Society and a Senior Advisor at Flint Global.
Previously Executive Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Asia (2021-2023).
Worked as Mumbai Bureau Chief and Comment Editor for the Financial Times (2010-2016).
Served as a senior advisor in the UK Prime Minister's Strategy Unit under Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair.
Educated at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the London School of Economics.

Biography

James Crabtree is a British author and geopolitical analyst. He currently serves as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, a Senior Fellow at the Asia Society, and a Senior Advisor at Flint Global. He is also a columnist for Foreign Policy and writes columns for Nikkei Asian Review and The Straits Times.