Shashank Joshi — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Defence Editor at The Economist, covering military and security issues including war, nuclear weapons, intelligence, and cyber security.
Visiting Senior Fellow at the Department of War Studies, King's College London.
Authored books on Iran’s nuclear programme and India’s armed forces.
Previously served as Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and Senior Fellow at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
Holds degrees from Cambridge and Harvard, where he was a Kennedy Scholar.
Provided evidence to the UK House of Commons’ foreign and defence committees and the House of Lords’ international relations and defence committee.

Biography

Shashank Joshi is the Defence Editor at The Economist, a role he has held since joining in 2018. In this capacity, he covers a broad spectrum of military and security issues, including war, nuclear weapons, intelligence, and cyber security. He has reported extensively on conflicts such as the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, contributing to more than a dozen cover stories, and has produced special reports on military technology, lessons from Ukraine, and the future of intelligence.