Edward Luce



Edward Geoffrey Luce (born 1 June 1968) is an English journalist and the Financial Times chief US commentator and columnist based in Washington, D.C.

Early life and education
Luce is the son of Rose Helen (born Nicholson) and Richard Luce, Baron Luce. His father is the former Lord Chamberlain to the Queen (2000 to 2006), former Governor of Gibraltar, a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) (1971 to 1992), government minister, and a crossbench member of the House of Lords. His paternal grandfather is Sir William Luce, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Aden, Political Resident in the Gulf and Special Representative to the Foreign Secretary (Lord Home) for Gulf Affairs. His great-uncle is admiral Sir David Luce, First Sea Lord (1963–1966). His maternal great-grandfather is vice-admiral Sir Trevylyan Napier, who was the Commander-in-Chief, America and West Indies Station (1919–1920). His first cousin is actress Miranda Hart.

Luce completed his secondary education at various boarding schools around Sussex, graduated with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from New College, Oxford, in 1990, and received a post-graduate diploma in newspaper journalism from City University, London.

Career
Between 1993 and 1994, Luce was a correspondent for The Guardian in Geneva, Switzerland.

Luce joined the Financial Times in 1995 and initially reported from the Philippines, after which he took a one-year sabbatical working in Washington, D.C., as speechwriter for Lawrence Summers, then U.S. Treasury Secretary (1999–2001) during the Clinton administration.

Luce was the Financial Times 's Washington bureau chief and South Asia bureau chief based in New Delhi before he became the paper's chief US commentator and columnist. He was the Financial Times 's South Asia bureau chief from 2001 to 2006.

Luce is also the author, along with colleague Rana Foroohar, of the weekly Swamp Notes newsletter, which covers the intersection of money, power, and politics in America.

Personal life
Luce was married to New Delhi-raised Priya Basu (World Bank’s lead economist for South Asia); they divorced in March 2015. He married Niamh King (Director of the Aspen Strategy Group and the Aspen Security Forum) in June 2017 in Chicago.