Sebastian Mallaby

Sebastian Christopher Peter Mallaby (born May 1964) is an English journalist and author, Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and contributing columnist at The Washington Post.^[1] Formerly, he was a contributing editor for the Financial Times and a columnist and editorial board member at The Washington Post.

His recent writing has been published in

Mallaby worked at The Washington Post from 1999 to 2007 as a columnist and member of the editorial board.[4] Prior to that he spent thirteen years with The Economist, in London, where he wrote about foreign policy and international finance.^[4] He also spent time in Africa, where he covered Nelson Mandela’s release and the collapse of apartheid; and in Japan, where he covered the breakdown of the country's political and economic consensus during the 90s.

Between 1997 and 1999 Mallaby was the Economist’s Washington bureau chief and wrote the magazine's weekly "Lexington" column on American politics and foreign policy. His 2002 Foreign Affairs essay "The Reluctant Imperialist" about failed states^[5] was cited by commentators in The New York Times, Financial Times, and Time magazine.^{[citation needed]} Mallaby is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist: in 2005 for editorials on Darfur and in 2007 for a series on economic inequality in America.^[6]

He wrote a long read for The Guardian on 'the cult of the expert - and how it collapsed'.^[7]

Books

Mallaby's books include After Apartheid (1992), which was a