What is next for Ukraine and Russia?

Speakers

• Shashank Joshi

  Defence editor

  Shashank Joshi is The Economist‘s defence editor. 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 has published books on Iran’s nuclear programme and India’s armed forces, written for a wide range of newspapers and journals, and appeared regularly on radio and television. He holds degrees from Cambridge and Harvard, where he served as a Kennedy Scholar from Britain to the United States.
• Edward Carr

  Deputy editor

  Edward Carr is the deputy editor responsible for editorial. He works alongside the editor-in-chief to oversee The Economist‘s journalism. He joined the newspaper as a science correspondent in 1987. After a series of jobs covering electronics, trade, energy and the environment, he moved to Paris to write about European business. In 2000, after a period as business editor, Mr Carr left for the Financial Times, where he worked latterly as news editor. He returned to The Economist 2005 as Britain editor, then became business affairs editor for a number of years. He was foreign editor (2009-15) before taking up his current role.
• Patrick Foulis

  Foreign editor

  Patrick Foulis is The Economist‘s foreign editor, responsible for its coverage globally outside of Britain and the United States. He was previously business affairs editor, running the economics, business, finance and science coverage between 2018 and 2022. He has also been New York bureau chief, US business editor and written the Schumpeter column. Before that he set up a new editorial bureau in Mumbai where he was based for four years as our India business and finance editor. Prior to that he was banking editor. Patrick joined The Economist in 2008. He is the author of special reports on the world economy, and on business in Asia and in emerging markets. He and four colleagues won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2012 for coverage of the eurozone crisis. Before joining Patrick worked at the Financial Times, where he was deputy editor of the Lex Column, and as a sell-side analyst in London, mainly on UBS Warburg’s number-one ranked European telecoms team. Patrick graduated with a double first class degree in social and political sciences from Cambridge University and was born and brought up in Scotland.
• Arkady Ostrovsky

  Russia and eastern Europe editor

  Arkady Ostrovsky is Russia and eastern Europe editor for The Economist. Prior to this role, he was the Moscow bureau chief for The Economist reporting on the annexation of Crimea and the war in Ukraine among many other subjects. He joined the paper in March 2007 after ten years with the Financial Times where he covered Russian politics and business, including the Yukos affair. His articles were among the first to warn of the resurgence of the security state under Putin. At The Economist, Arkady also writes about Russia-American relations, European security, Russia and China, Ukraine, Georgia and other former Soviet republics.