Edward Lucas is a writer and security expert and founder and director of the Baltic International Security Center in Vilnius, Lithuania. His expertise includes energy, cyber-security, espionage, information warfare, and Russian foreign and defense policy.
Formerly a senior editor at The Economist, he was for many years affiliated with the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), a think tank based in Washington, DC. He writes weekly columns for the London Times and EU Observer, and also for Foreign Policy.
In 1992, he co-founded an English-language weekly in Tallinn, Estonia: The Baltic Independent. In 2008, he wrote The New Cold War, a prescient account of Vladimir Putin's Russia, followed in 2011 by Deception, an investigative account of east-west espionage. He has written three other books.
He was also the first foreigner to receive an Estonian electronic identity card, and received the first Lithuanian visa in 1990. He was deported from the Soviet Union, arrested, beaten up, interrogated and spied on by communist secret police agents behind the Iron Curtain.
