British · b. 1964
Sebastian Mallaby is a British-born journalist and author who writes on finance, economics and technology. He worked at The Economist and The Washington Post, where he was a columnist and editorial writer, and later became a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. His books include The World's Banker, about James Wolfensohn and the World Bank; More Money Than God, a history of hedge funds; The Man Who Knew, a biography of Alan Greenspan; and The Power Law, about venture capital. The Man Who Knew was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography. In The Infinity Machine he turns to artificial intelligence and tells the story of Demis Hassabis and DeepMind. Mallaby's work is known for detailed reporting and plain explanation of complex financial and technological systems.