Griffith Asia Institute Public Lecture: Superfast India: It will soon be the world's most populous country, but will India ever be a great power?

Griffith Asia Institute Public Lecture: Superfast India: It will soon be the world's most populous country, but will India ever be a great power?
Griffith Asia Institute Public Lecture: Superfast India: It will soon be the world's most populous country, but will India ever be a great power?

Principal speaker

Mr Adam Roberts

Adam Roberts has been a foreign correspondent at The Economist since 1998. His latest book, “Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation” (Public Affairs and Profile Books, in 2017) was picked by the Financial Times as one of its books of the summer for 2017, and by Fareed Zakaria, on CNN, as his “book of the week”, in late July 2017. ' It draws on Adam's five years as a correspondent, reporting in India, and argues that India must overcome enormous domestic problems to emerge as a stronger power. The book is written with 'a reporter's keen eye, an analyst's sweep of mind, the historian's judiciousness' (Nisid Hajari) and captures 'the drama and hyperbole of a rapidly morphing nation in all its complexity' (Nandan Nilekani).

Adam's previous book, 'The Wonga Coup' (Public Affairs and Profile Books, in 2006), recounts the true story of how western mercenaries, including the son of a former British prime minister, failed in a coup plot against Equatorial Guinea. This was described by the Sunday Times as 'Riveting and superbly researched. . . a brilliant, mordant, blackly comic read'.

At The Economist, Adam has been a foreign writer based in London, Africa correspondent based in Johannesburg, online news editor based in London, South Asia correspondent based in Delhi. He is currently the publication's Europe business correspondent, based in Paris. He has occasionally written op-ed and opinion columns for the New York Times, the Guardian, Independent and other publications. He wrote the lyrics to a popular song, Jimmy, performed by a blues group, Moriarty, in France. He occasionally appears as a commentator on current affairs, on television, and tweets as @ARobertsjourno.

A graduate of Oxford and the London School of Economics, he is a British citizen, married to Anne Hammerstad, a Norwegian academic. They have two children.


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