About
Robert Lane Greene is a journalist based in New York. He is an international correspondent for The Economist, currently covering American politics and foreign policy online. His book on the politics of language around the world, You Are What You Speak, will be published by Bantam (Random House) in Spring 2011. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Slate and other publications, and he wrote a biweekly column for the New Republic from 2002-2004. He is a frequent television and radio commentator on international affairs, an analyst for Freedom House, an adjunct assistant professor in the Center for Global Affairs at New York University, and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Greene was born in Johnson City, Tennessee and grew up in Marietta, Georgia. He graduated with honors from Tulane University in 1997, receiving a B.A. in International Relations and History. He won a Marshall Scholarship and completed an M.Phil. in European Politics and Society at the University of Oxford in 1999. He is fluent in German, Spanish, French and Portuguese, conversant in Russian, Arabic and Danish. He joined The Economist in 2000, lives in Brooklyn, is married to Eva Høier Greene, and has one son, Jack.