Sebastian Mallaby Keynote Speaker

Sebastian Mallaby is a highly acclaimed journalist, popular public speaker and best-selling author.

Sebastian is the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and from 2007-14 was Director of the Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the same establishment. He has led a US delegation to Beijing to discuss the internationalization of the Chinese currency and has been instrumental in CFR’s work on subjects at the intersection of international relations and international finance. His recent writing has been published in Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic Monthly.

Sebastian began his career as a staff writer for the Economist, where he wrote about foreign policy and international finance. Between 1997 and 1999, Sebastian was the Economist’s Washington bureau chief and wrote the magazine’s weekly Lexington column on American politics and foreign policy. He spent eight years as a columnist and editorial board member at the Washington Post. He is a two-time Pulitzer prize finalist: once for editorials on Darfur and once for a series on economic inequality.

Sebastian is the author of six books, and is the only writer to have been short-listed three times for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year award in addition to winning it on one occasion. His latest book, “The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence, is a bestseller in the United States, the UK and China.