Profile

James advises clients on geopolitics and its impacts on business.

James Crabtree is a geopolitical analyst and author, with extensive experience living and working in Asia. In addition to his work at Flint, he is a distinguished visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, a senior fellow at the Asia Society, and a columnist for Foreign Policy. Previously, he was the Singapore-based Executive Director of the Institute of International Strategic Studies in Asia, where he led the organisation of the annual Shangri-La Dialogue security summit, and an Associate Professor in Practice at the Lee Kuan Yew School, Asia’s leading school of public policy. His best-selling book, “The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age”, was named an Amazon book of the year and short-listed as FT / McKinsey business book of the year.

James spent ten years as a journalist and foreign correspondent, notably for the Financial Times, where he was both Mumbai Bureau Chief and Comment Editor. He has written for a range of global publications, from the FT and the Economist to The New York Times and Wired. He previously worked as a senior advisor in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, under Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair. He has worked for various think tanks in London and Washington DC, and spent a number of years living in America, initially as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.