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 bureau chief in Madrid, south Asia bureau chief in New Delhi, Asia editor in Hong Kong, Paris and South Africa 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.