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Biography
James Astill is The Economist’s Lexington columnist, based in Washington, DC. Previous to this, he was Political Editor and Bagehot columnist based in London, among several other jobs, based in several countries, and covering many more. He joined The Economist as International Security Editor in 2004. He had previously filed dispatches from Afghanistan, Pakistan and many African countries, while based in Kabul, Islamabad and Nairobi.
In 2007 he moved to Delhi to be the South Asia Correspondent, writing on all the countries of the Indian sub-continent. He then returned to London to be Energy and Environment Editor, before his appointment as Political Editor. He has won several awards for his journalism, including the Gerald Ford prize for writings on US security, the Grantham prize for a special report on the world’s forests and the Ramnath Goenka Award for exceptional coverage of India.
He has also written a best-selling social history of Indian cricket, The Great Tamasha, which won several awards, including 2013 Book of the Year for cricket writing at the British Sports Awards