Edward Lucas (born 3 May 1962) is a British writer and security specialist.

Career

Lucas is non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis. Until 2018, he was a senior editor at ''

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''. He writes a column for ''

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'' and occasionally writes for the ''

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''. He edited '' Standpoint'' magazine from September 2019 until March 2020. Lucas has covered Central and Eastern European affairs since 1986, writing, broadcasting, and speaking on the politics, economics, and security of the region. In September 2021, he was selected as the Liberal Democrat prospective parliamentary candidate for the constituency of

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in the next general election, then expected to take place in 2024.

Personal life

Lucas's second wife is the columnist

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, with whom he has one child; he had two children with his first wife Claudia, who is German. He lives in London. His father was the

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philosopher John Lucas. On 1 December 2014, he became the first e-resident of

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.Journalist Edward Lucas becomes the 1st Estonian e-resident
ERR, 1 December 2014

Bibliography

* ''The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West '', Palgrave Macmillan (19 February 2008), . * ''Deception: The Untold Story of East-West Espionage Today'', Walker & Company (19 June 2012), *''The Snowden Operation: Inside the West's Greatest Intelligence Disaster'', Amazon Publishing (23 January 2014), ASIN: B00I0W61OY *''Cyberphobia: Identity, Trust, Security and the Internet'', Bloomsbury (5 May 2015), *''Spycraft Rebooted: How Technology is Changing Espionage,'' Amazon Publishing (6 March 2018), ASIN: B078W6LXGG

References

External links

Edward Lucas's site
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lucas, Edward 1962 births Living people Alumni of the London School of Economics British male journalists The Economist people Daily Mail journalists English Anglicans People educated at Winchester College Jagiellonian University alumni 20th-century British journalists 21st-century British journalists