Gideon Rachman

Gideon Rachman

• Geopolitics and foreign affairs expert: Asia, Europe, the Middle East, the Americas
• Chief Foreign Affairs Columnist, Financial Times
• Regular broadcaster for the BBS, CNN, and NPR
• Bestselling author

In July 2006, Gideon Rachman became the chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times. Before this, he spent 15 years at The Economist. He worked as a foreign correspondent in Brussels, Washington, and Bangkok. He was also an editor for The Economist’s business and Asia sections. His areas of interest include American foreign policy, the European Union, and globalization. In 2010, Rachman published his book, Zero-Sum World, which explores the future of international relations.

Gideon Rachman earned a first-class honours degree in History from Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University in 1984. While there, he befriended Richard Tomlinson, a future MI6 agent, and provided him with a reference for his Kennedy Scholarship application. He began his career in 1984 with the BBC World Service and later became a visiting fellow and Fulbright scholar at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from 1987 to 1988. He worked as a reporter for The Sunday Correspondent in Washington DC from 1988 to 1990.

Gideon Rachman is a regular broadcaster for the BBC, CNN, and NPR, and also speaks publicly before academic and business audiences. He is the author of ‘Easternisation – War and Peace in the Asian Century’, ‘Zero Sum World: Politics Power and Prosperity After the Crash’ and ‘Easternisation: War and Peace in the Asian Century’.

Gideon Rachman – Speaker

Gideon Rachman speaks on topics encompassing economics, global politics, globalisation, and global polycrises. He lives in the United Kingdom and speaks English.

Speaking Topics

• Zero-Sum World
• The Future of Globalisation
• The European Union
• US-China Relations
• European Economy
• American Foreign Policy