James Crabtree

James Crabtree is a geopolitical analyst, author and public speaker, with extensive experience working in Asia. He is a distinguished visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, a columnist for Foreign Policy, and a senior advisor at both the Asia Society in New York and Flint Global in London. James is writing his second book – The Perimeter: The Struggle for Primacy in the Pacific – examining the future of America’s military presence in Asia, to be published in 2027 by W. W. Norton & Company. His first – The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age – was short-listed as FT / McKinsey business book of the year and named an Amazon book of the year.James was previously the Singapore-based Executive Director of the Institute of International Strategic Studies in Asia, where he led the organisation of the annual Shangri-La Dialogue security summit, and an Associate Professor in Practice at the Lee Kuan Kew School, Asia's leading school of public policy. Before moving to Singapore, James worked for the Financial Times, where he was both Bureau Chief in Mumbai and Comment Editor in London. Elsewhere he has written for a range of global publications ranging from the New York Times and Nikkei Asia to the Guardian to Wired. Earlier in his career he worked as a senior advisor in the UK Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, under Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. He was educated at Harvard and the LSE.