David Rennie is Geopolitics editor of The Economist and author of The Telegram column. He joined The Economist in 2007 as EU Correspondent and Charlemagne columnist, based in Brussels. From 2010-2012, he was British Political Editor and Bagehot columnist in London. He moved to Washington, DC in 2012, where he wrote the Lexington column until 2017 and served as Washington Bureau Chief from 2013-2018. From 2018-2024, he was Beijing Bureau Chief and Chaguan columnist. Before joining The Economist, he was on the foreign staff of The Daily Telegraph, with postings in Sydney, Beijing, Washington, DC, and Brussels. He won the 2010 UACES/Thomson Reuters Reporting Europe award. In 2023, he and Sue-Lin Wong received the Asia Society’s Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia for their coverage of China.