Victor 
Mallet is an author, journalist and commentator who has travelled and worked for more than three decades in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. His new book Far-right France: Le Pen, Bardella and the Future of Europe, is published by Hurst in January 2026. He is currently senior editor, world news, at the Financial Times. Previously he was the FT’s Paris bureau chief.
His previous book River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India’s Future (OUP, 2017) examined the fate of what is arguably the world’s most important river. In India, he was twice awarded the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism as a foreign correspondent, first for a 2012 feature about the rise of Narendra Modi and later for a 2015 magazine cover story about the threats to the River Ganges. In Hong Kong, he twice won the Society of Publishers in Asia award for opinion writing.
His highly praised book on the south-east Asian industrial revolution and the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, The Trouble with Tigers: The Rise and Fall of South-East Asia (HarperCollins), was first published in 1999.
Victor Mallet: author and journalist 