birth_place subject nationality parents birth_date genre image article_title name occupation
sussex american politics and economics , india british richard luce 1 june 1968 non-fiction edward luce may 2012.jpg edward luce
 edward luce author , journalist
edward luce

edward luce is the financial times chief us commentator and columnist based in washington , dc .
before that he was the ft 's washington bureau chief and south asia bureau chief based in new delhi .
he is the author of the 2006 book `` in spite of the gods : the strange rise of modern india '' , and the 2012 book `` time to start thinking : america and the spectre of decline '' , published with a different subtitle in north america : `` time to start thinking : america in the age of descent '' .
his first job was as a correspondent for `` the guardian '' in geneva .
he first joined the `` financial times '' in 1995 and reported for the ft from the philippines , after which he took one year sabbatical working in washington , dc as the speech writer to lawrence summers , then us treasury secretary -lrb- 1999 -- 2001 -rrb- during the clinton administration .
luce graduated with a degree in philosophy , politics and economics from new college , oxford , in 1990 , and completed a post-graduate diploma in newspaper journalism from city university , london .
he has studied at various boarding schools around sussex .
he is the son of richard luce , and his first cousin is the writer , actress , and comedienne miranda hart .
