Victor MALLET

Bio

Victor Mallet is a journalist, editor, commentator and author with more than three decades of experience in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He is currently Paris bureau chief of the Financial Times. His previous posts include south Asia bureau chief in New Delhi, bureau chief in Madrid, Asia editor in Hong Kong, and Paris correspondent. He twice won the Society of Publishers in Asia award for opinion writing. In India, he was twice awarded the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism as a foreign correspondent, first for a 2012 feature about the rise of Narendra Modi and later for a weekend magazine cover story on the Ganges. His latest book is River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India’s Future (OUP, 2017), and his highly praised analysis of the south-east Asian industrial revolution and the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, The Trouble with Tigers (HarperCollins), was first published in 1999. Career: 2019 - Paris bureau chief, Financial Times 2016 - 2018 Asia news editor, Financial Times, Hong Kong 2012 - 2016 South Asia bureau chief, Financial Times, New Delhi 2008 - 2012 Madrid bureau chief, Financial Times 2006 - 2008 Asia editor, Financial Times, Hong Kong 2003 – 2006 Chief Asia correspondent, Financial Times, Hong Kong 2001 - 2003 France correspondent, Financial Times, Paris 1998 - 2001 Southern Africa correspondent, Financial Times, Johannesburg 1997 Book writing and research 1995 - 1996 Deputy features editor, Financial Times, London 1992 - 1994 South-east Asia correspondent, Financial Times, Bangkok 1989 - 1991 Middle East correspondent , Financial Times, London 1986 - 1988 Africa correspondent, Financial Times, Lusaka 1983 - 1986 South Africa correspondent, Reuters, Johannesburg and Cape Town 1982 France correspondent, Reuters, Paris following training at Reuters in London Education: 1978 – 1981 Merton College, Oxford University. Degree in English (BA Hons) 1973 – 1978 Winchester College, Winchester.