Victor Mallet is a journalist, commentator and author with more than three decades of experience in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He is now a senior editor on the FT's world desk, and his previous jobs include Paris bureau chief and Asia editor.
He is the author of two books - River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India's Future; and The Trouble with Tigers: The Rise and Fall of South-East Asia - and he continues to write on geopolitics, the environment and the oceans.