The new battlefield—tech, tactics and power

Speakers

• Edward Carr

  Deputy editor

  Edward Carr is the deputy editor responsible for editorial. He works alongside the Editor-in-Chief to oversee The Economist‘s journalism. He joined the newspaper as a science correspondent in 1987. After a series of jobs covering electronics, trade, energy and the environment, he moved to Paris to write about European business. In 2000, after a period as business editor, Mr. Carr left for the Financial Times, where he worked latterly as news editor. He returned to The Economist 2005 as Britain editor, then became business affairs editor for a number of years. He was foreign editor (2009-15) before taking up his current role.
• Shashank Joshi

  Defence editor

  Shashank Joshi is The Economist‘s defence editor. Prior to joining The Economist in 2018, he served as Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and Research Associate at Oxford University’s Changing Character of War Programme. He has published books on Iran’s nuclear programme and India’s armed forces, written for a wide range of newspapers and journals, and appeared regularly on radio and television. He holds degrees from Cambridge and Harvard, where he served as a Kennedy Scholar from Britain to the United States.
• Wendell Steavenson

  Correspondent, 1843 magazine

  Over the past two decades Wendell Steavenson has covered wars and insurgencies in Iraq, Lebanon, Georgia and Ukraine, focusing on human stories amid the rubble. She won the Orwell Prize for journalism this year for her reporting from Israel-Palestine and Ukraine for The Economist's 1843 magazine.
• Steve Coll

  Senior editor

  Steve Coll is a visiting senior editor at The Economist. Previously he was Dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a staff writer at the New Yorker. Prior to joining Columbia he was president of the New America Foundation, a think-tank in Washington. Earlier he was a reporter and senior editor at the Washington Post, where his roles included New York financial correspondent, South Asia correspondent in New Delhi, international investigative correspondent in London, editor of the Sunday magazine, and managing editor. Mr Coll is the author of nine nonfiction books about business and international affairs. They include “Ghost Wars”, about the run-up to 9/11, which received the Pulitzer Prize; “Private Empire”, about ExxonMobil; and most recently, “The Achilles Trap”, about the United States and Saddam Hussein.