Sebastian Mallaby – Columnist, Washington Post
Sebastian Mallaby is a member of the Washington Post editorial board. His interests cover a
wide variety of domestic and international issues, including globalization, international
development, and U.S. economic policy. He spent 2003 as a senior fellow at the Council on
Foreign Relations, where he wrote a history of the World Bank under James Wolfensohn. The
book, entitled The World’s Banker, was just published by the Penguin Press.
Mallaby joined the Post in 1999 after thirteen years with The Economist. While at The
Economist, Mallaby worked in London, Africa and Japan. Between 1996 and 1999 Mallaby was
based in The Economist’s Washington bureau, and wrote the magazine’s weekly Lexington
column on American politics and foreign policy. Mallaby has also contributed to numerous other
publications, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The National Interest, The New York
Times, Policy Review and The New Republic. He is the author of After Apartheid: The Future of
South Africa, which was listed by the New York Times as one of the notable books of 1992.