Max Rodenbeck

Rodenbeck has been interviewed on Charlie Rose, with Christiane Amanpour on CNN, on National Public Radio (NPR), The Wire (India), as well as The Economist Radio, and podcasts such as The Arabist. Rodenbeck has also been a regular panelist at the annual Jaipur Literary Festival in Rajasthan, India, and was a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC in 2015.

Rodenbeck started writing in the English-language press in Egypt in the 1980s, and also contributed to a number of tour guides such as the Insight series volumes on Cairo, Egypt and The Nile. He began covering Egypt and the Middle East as a stringer for The Economist in 1988, while also writing as a freelancer for the Financial Times, Middle East International, The Cairo Times and numerous other publications. In 2000 he was appointed Middle East Bureau Chief for The Economist, covering the region from Iran to Morocco. During his 15 years in the post he covered events ranging from the toppling of Saddam Hussein and the US occupation of Iraq, to the failed revolutions of 2009 in Iran, and the Arab Spring in 2011. Notably, Rodenbeck's reportage in 2010 correctly predicted the eruption of the Arab Spring. Since January 2016 he has been South Asia Bureau Chief for The Economist, based in Delhi.

Max Rodenbeck (born 1962) is a British/American journalist and author based in Delhi . He is South Asia Bureau Chief for The Economist magazine, where he has written on international affairs for more than 30 years. He was previously The Economist's Middle East Bureau Chief in Cairo from 2000-2015. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Cairo: The City Victorious, regarded as one of the best single-volume biographies of the city available, and is a contributor to the New York Review of Books, the New York Times and Foreign Policy magazine. He has been described as "one of the foremost experts on today’s Middle East".