Speaker Details
Victor Mallet
South Asia Bureau Chief, Financial Times
Victor Mallet is the Financial Times South Asia bureau chief, based in New Delhi. Prior to this role he spent four years as Madrid bureau chief, and before that he was the editor of the FT s Asia edition.
Mallet joined the FT in 1986 and has had a variety of overseas roles, including Southern African correspondent from 1998 to 2001, South-East Asia correspondent from 1992 to 1994, and Africa correspondent from 1986 to 1988. Mallet has also been deputy features editor, Middle East correspondent, Paris correspondent and chief Asia correspondent.
Before joining the Financial Times, Mallet was a correspondent for Reuters in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Paris. He is the author of The Trouble with Tigers: the Rise and Fall of South-East Asia, which was published in 1999. He received the Society of Publishers in Asia s award for opinion writing in 2005 and 2006.
Mallet is a graduate of Oxford University and holds a degree in English.
