Sebastian Christopher Peter Mallaby was born on May 1964 and is an English journalist and author, Paul A Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, and contributing columnist at The Washington Post.
14 Facts About Sebastian Mallaby
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Sebastian Mallaby's recent writing has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic Monthly.
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Sebastian Mallaby's books include The Man Who Knew, More Money Than God, and The World's Banker.
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Sebastian Mallaby was born in May 1964, the son of Sir Christopher Mallaby, who was Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Germany and Ambassador of the United Kingdom to France, and Lady Pascale Mallaby.
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Sebastian Mallaby's interests include financial markets, the implications of the rise of newly emerging powers, and the intersection of economics and international relations.
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Sebastian Mallaby worked at The Washington Post from 1999 to 2007 as a columnist and member of the editorial board.
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Sebastian Mallaby 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.
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Between 1997 and 1999 Sebastian Mallaby was the Economist's Washington bureau chief and wrote the magazine's weekly "Lexington" column on American politics and foreign policy.
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Sebastian 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.
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Sebastian Mallaby wrote a long read for The Guardian on 'the cult of the expert - and how it collapsed'.
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Sebastian Mallaby's books include After Apartheid, which was a New York Times Notable Book.
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Sebastian Mallaby published a history of the hedge-fund industry in More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite.
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In 2022, Sebastian Mallaby published his fifth book, The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future, a history of the venture capital industry's development in the US and globally over the last seven decades.
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Sebastian Mallaby is married to the English journalist and Editor-in-Chief for The Economist, Zanny Minton Beddoes.