David Rennie

David Rennie joined The Economist in 2007 as European Union correspondent and Charlemagne columnist, based in Brussels. From July 2010 to July 2012, he was British political editor and author of the Bagehot column, based in London. In the summer of 2012, he moved to Washington DC. He was Lexington columnist 2012-17, and Washington bureau chief 2013-2018. From May 2018 to September 2024, he was Beijing bureau chief, launching the Chaguan column on China in September 2018. He returned to London as Geopolitics editor and launched The Telegram, a column on geopolitics, in October 2024. He is the co-host, with Alice Su, of the Drum Tower podcast, launched in late 2022.

Previously, Rennie was on the foreign staff of the Daily Telegraph, with postings in Sydney (1998), Beijing (1998 to 2002), Washington DC (2002-05) and Brussels (2005-07). From 2006 until he joined The Economist, he was also a contributing editor of the Spectator magazine. Rennie worked for the Daily Telegraph in London (1996-98), and the Evening Standard (1992-96). He won the 2010 UACES/Thomson Reuters “Reporting Europe” award. The Asia Society awarded the 2023 Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia to Rennie and Sue-Lin Wong for their coverage of China. Rennie is also contributing panelist on “1A”, NPR’s daily news talk program, based at WAMU in Washington DC.