Shashank Joshi

Shashank Joshi is The Economist’s Washington bureau chief. He served for eight years as the paper’s defence editor, writing the weekly War Room newsletter with more than 120,000 subscribers and presenting Inside Defence, a monthly video podcast. 

Prior to joining The Economist in 2018, he served as Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and Research Associate at Oxford University’s Changing Character of War Programme. He is also a visiting senior fellow at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. 

He has published books on Iran’s nuclear programme and India’s armed forces. He is as a visiting senior fellow at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London and holds degrees from Cambridge and Harvard, where he served as a Kennedy Scholar from Britain to the United States. He has written or co-authored more than 30 cover stories for The Economist, as well as several special reports on military technology, the lessons from Ukraine and the future of intelligence.

A full list of his writing is available here.