30 January - 3 February 2025 | Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur

VICTOR MALLET

WRITER & JOURNALIST

Victor Mallet is a journalist, commentator and author with three decades of experience in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He is currently Asia news editor for the Financial Times and was bureau chief in South Asia, based in New Delhi, from 2012-2016. Mallet has written numerous editorials, columns and features on security, politics, economics and business. He has 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, once for a feature about the rise of Narendra Modi and later for a magazine article on the River Ganges. He is the author of The Trouble with Tigers, the highly praised book on the south-east Asian industrial revolution and the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. His new book is Ganges, River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India’s Future.

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