Ben Judah
Ben Judah (born 1988) is a British journalist and the author of This Is London and Fragile Empire.
Early life
The son of author Tim Judah,[1] Judah was born in London. He is of Baghdadi Jewish descent. He spent a portion of his childhood in the Balkans[1] before returning to London where he was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle. He attended Oxford University.[2]
Career
Judah has interviewed and profiled French President Emmanuel Macron, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak.[3][4][5] He has covered the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, the 2010 Kyrgyz Revolution and the 2011 Tunisian Revolution.[6][7][8] He was a regular contributor to the magazine Standpoint, reporting from the Caucasus, Siberia, Central Asia and Xinjiang.[9][10][11][12]
From 2010 to 2012, he was a policy fellow in London at the European Council on Foreign Relations, a think-tank.[13] He has also been a Visiting Fellow at the European Stability Initiative in Istanbul.[14] From 2017 to 2020, he was a research fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington D.C.[15] In 2020, he joined the Atlantic Council in Washington D.C. as a Nonresident Senior Fellow.[16] Judah has written for various progressive and conservative think-tanks including The Center For American Progress (CAP) and Policy Exchange.[17][18] His work has also featured at The German Council on Foreign Relations.[19]
His first book Fragile Empire (2013), a study of Vladimir Putin's Russia, was published by Yale University Press.[20][21]
Judah has written for The New York Times, and The Sunday Times. He has been a guest on CNN, BBC News and Channel 4 News and is a contributing writer for Politico Europe.[22]
In 2015, he was commended for the Feature Writer of the Year award at the British Press Awards.[23]
His second book, This Is London (2016) was published by Picador. The book was Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction 2016 and Shortlisted for the Ryszard[24] Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage 2019.[25]
Judah was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 Europe list in 2016.[26]
Personal life
Judah is married to BuzzFeed reporter Rosie Gray.[27]
Bibliography
Books
Selected articles
- Judah, Ben (2 April 2017). "Exclusive interview: Emmanuel Macron on Brexit, le Pen and the teacher who became his wife". The Times.
- Judah, Ben (4 February 2018). "The Magazine Interview: Imran Khan, the former playboy cricketer and would-be PM of Pakistan". The Times.
References
- Clibbon, Jennifer. "Snowden, Syria, Vladimir Putin's 'Cold Peace' with the West | CBC News".
- "Ben Judah feels like a stranger in his native London". The Spectator. 6 February 2016.
- Judah, Ben. "Exclusive interview: Emmanuel Macron on Brexit, le Pen and the teacher who became his wife".
- Judah, Interview by Ben. "The Magazine Interview: Imran Khan, the former playboy cricketer and would-be PM of Pakistan".
- "Maharajah of the Yorkshire Dales". 5 May 2015.
- Judah, Ben (April 2011). "From Carthage to Kasserine". Standpoint Magazine. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
- Judah, Ben. "Blood in the Streets of Bishkek".
- Judah, Ben (October 2009). "Moscow: Putin's Empire Strikes Out". Standpoint Magazine. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
- Judah, Ben (October 2008). "Caucasus: Diary, August-September, 2008". Standpoint Magazine. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
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- "Ben Judah - About ESI - ESI". www.esiweb.org.
- "Experts - Ben Judah - Hudson Institute". www.hudson.org. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- "Ben Judah". Atlantic Council. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- Sutton, Trevor; Judah, Ben. "Turning the Tide on Dirty Money". Center for American Progress. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
- "A "Washington Strategy" for British Diplomacy". Policy Exchange. Retrieved 24 September 2021.
- "International Corporate Tax Reform | DGAP".
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - Feinberg, Richard (November 2013). "Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin". Foreign Affairs. 92 (6).
- Tismaneanu, Vladimir (May 2014). "Reviewed Work: Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin by Ben Judah". International Affairs. 90 (3): 725–727.
- "Ben Judah: 30 under 30". Forbes. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 June 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - Oliver, Tim (1 May 2016). "This Is London: Life and Death in the World City Ben Judah". International Affairs. 92 (3): 737–738.
- "This is London by Ben Judah". www.panmacmillan.com. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
- "Ben Judah, 27". Forbes. 18 January 2016. Archived from the original on 7 February 2019. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
- Palmer, Anna; Sherman, Jake. "POLITICO Playbook: Trump's 'lost summer'". POLITICO. Retrieved 19 September 2021.