Steve LeVine (born in

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) is a journalist. He writes The Electric,
new publication
on batteries, electric vehicles, and their impact on society, cities and geopolitics. He is a senior fellow on the Foresight, Strategy and Risk Initiative at the Atlantic Council and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, where he teaches energy security in the graduate-level Security Studies Program. Previously, he was a foreign correspondent for eighteen years in the former

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and the

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''. He formerly wrote
Future
', a newsletter at Axios, and
The Oil and the Glory
', a blog on energy and geopolitics at ''Foreign Policy'' magazine. LeVine is married to Nurilda Nurlybayeva and has two daughters. He has published three books: ''The Oil and the Glory'' (2007) which tells the story of the struggle for fortune, glory and power on the

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; ''Putin's Labyrinth'' (2008), a profile of Russia through the life and death of a half-dozen Russians; and ''The Powerhouse'', on the geopolitics of advanced batteries, which was long-listed for the Financial Times-McKinsey 2015 Business Book of the Year.

Biography

LeVine has lived in Washington, D.C. since 2008 with his wife and two daughters. Previously he lived in Central Asia and

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for 11 years – starting two weeks after the collapse of the Soviet Union. He led the regional bureau of ''The Wall Street Journal'', and before that ''The New York Times''. Prior to that, he lived in Pakistan from 1988–1991, and before that he was based in Manila from 1985–1988. In 1995, he wa
expelled from Russia
the first foreign correspondent to be declared persona non grata by Moscow since the 1980s. Later that year, h

in Chechnya. As of 2007, LeVine has been a regular guest speaker for entities such as

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, the World Affairs Council, and various universities. LeVine was a good friend of slain Wall Street Journal colleague

Daniel Pearl Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was an American journalist who worked for ''The Wall Street Journal.'' He was kidnapped and later decapitated by terrorists in Pakistan.' Pearl was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and rais ...

. After the kidnapping, he flew to Pakistan to investigate. His role in the investigation is depicted in the 2007 film
A Mighty Heart
'. LeVine would later help

Mariane Pearl Mariane van Neyenhoff Pearl (born 23 July 1967) is a French freelance journalist and a former reporter and columnist for '' Glamour'' magazine. She is the widow of Daniel Pearl, an American journalist who was the South Asia Bureau Chief for ''The ...

with the Daniel Pearl Foundation.

Works

Books

* ''The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea''. New York:

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(2007). 496 p. . * ''Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder, and the Dark Heart of the New Russia''. New York:

(2008). 224 p. . . * ''The Powerhouse: Inside the Invention of a Battery to Save the World''. New York: Viking (2015). 320 p. .

Articles

Was James Giffen Telling the Truth?
''

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'' (Nov. 19, 2010).

External links

Official Website
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