Sebastian Mallaby

Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR). An experienced journalist and public speaker, Mr. Mallaby contributes to a variety of
publications, including Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, and the Financial Times, where he
spent two years as a contributing editor. He is the author of five books, most recently The Power Law: Venture
Capital and the Making of the New Future.
Mr. Mallaby’s interests cover a wide variety of domestic and international issues, including central banks,
financial markets, the implications of the rise of newly emerging powers, and the intersection of economics
and international relations. His previous book, The Man Who Knew: The Life & Times of Alan Greenspan, winner
of the 2016 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and the 2017 George S. Eccles Prize
in Economic Writing. More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite, was described by New
York Times columnist David Brooks as “superb”; it was the recipient of the 2011 Loeb Prize, a finalist in
the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs prize, and a New York Times best seller. Mr. Mallaby’s earlier books are The
World’s Banker, a portrait of the World Bank under James Wolfensohn that was named as an “Editor’s Choice”
by the New York Times; and After Apartheid, which was named by the New York Times as a “Notable Book”. An
essay in the Financial Times said of The World’s Banker, “Mallaby’s book may well be the most hilarious
depiction of a big organization and its controversial boss since Michael Lewis’s Liar’s Poker.”