Sebastian Mallaby

Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul Volcker Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Washington Post columnist. He spent thirteen years in The Economist magazine, covering international finance in London and serving as the bureau chief in southern Africa, Japan, and Washington. He spent eight years on the editorial board of The Washington Post, focusing on globalization and political economy. His previous books are The World's Banker (2004), which was named an Editor's Choice by The New York Times, and After Apartheid (1992), which was a New York Times Notable Book.

Mallaby worked at The Washington Post from 1999 to 2007 as a columnist and member of the editorial board. Prior to that, he spent thirteen years with The Economist in London, where he wrote about foreign policy and international finance. 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.