James Crabtree is an award-winning author whose first book The Billionaire Raj (2018) was an Amazon Book of the Year and an FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year finalist. He's a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and columnist for Foreign Policy. Until 2023, he was Executive Director of IISS-Asia, organizing the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit where he met personally with defence ministers from the US, China, and virtually every Indo-Pacific power. Former Mumbai Bureau Chief for the Financial Times, Associate Professor at Lee Kuan Yew School, and senior advisor in UK PM's Strategy Unit, he's currently a Senior Fellow at the Asia Society in New York.