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.

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