Sebastian Mallaby

Sebastian Mallaby is a British journalist, author, and authority on global economics and finance. He serves as the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. Mallaby was educated at Eton College and Oxford University, where he graduated with a first class degree in modern history. Prior to joining the Council on Foreign Relations, Mallaby spent eight years as a columnist and editorial board member at the Washington Post and thirteen years with Economist, working in London, Africa, and Japan. His reporting has covered foreign policy, international finance, Nelson Mandela's release, the collapse of apartheid, and the breakdown of Japan's political and economic consensus. He also served as Economist's Washington bureau chief and wrote the weekly Lexington column on American politics and foreign policy.

A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Mallaby is the author of six books, including "More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite" and "The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future." "More Money Than God" provides a comprehensive history of the hedge fund industry and received the Gerald Loeb Award, was a finalist for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and became a New York Times bestseller. His earlier works include "The World's Banker," a portrait of the World Bank under James Wolfensohn, which was named an Editor's Choice by the New York Times, and "After Apartheid," recognized as a Notable Book by the New York Times.

Mallaby's book "The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan" examines the career of the former Federal Reserve chairman and won the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award as well as the George S. Eccles Prize in Economic Writing. Mallaby is the only writer to have been shortlisted three times for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, in addition to winning it once.

Mallaby is also the author of "The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence," which explores artificial intelligence and its impact on technology and global finance. He co-hosts the weekly Council on Foreign Relations podcast "The Spillover," which analyzes the effects of global events on policy, geopolitics, economics, technology, and financial markets. Mallaby contributes to publications including Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and Financial Times, providing analysis on global finance, economics, and geopolitics.