Philippe Legrain is a Visiting Fellow at the London
School of Economics’ European Institute as well as a contributing editor
to Prospect magazine.
He writes for the Financial Times, The Wall
Street Journal Europe, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, New
Statesman and The Ecologist, as well as The New Republic, Foreign Policy
and the Chronicle Review. In 1999, he was highly commended as Young
Financial Journalist of the Year in the Harold Wincott Press Awards. His
books include Open World: The Truth about Globalisation (2002),
Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them (2007) and Aftershock: Reshaping the
World Economy After the Crisis (2010). Immigrants was shortlisted for
the 2007 Financial Times Business Book of the Year award.