Sebastian Mallaby

Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he is affiliated with the Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and co-hosts CFR’s weekly podcast “The Spillover.” He is also a contributing columnist for The Washington Post, after eight years as a Post columnist and thirteen years at The Economist, including as Washington bureau chief.

Mallaby is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of six books, including “More Money Than God,” “The Man Who Knew” (a biography of Alan Greenspan), “The Power Law,” and his newest, “The Infinity Machine,” about DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis. He earned a first-class degree in modern history from Oxford in 1986.