How Edie Lush left their lane.
Edie Lush moved from political analysis and global markets into journalism – and now asks what humanity needs to survive the technologies it creates.
Edie Lush started out thinking she would become a doctor.
She arrived at UCLA as a pre-med student before an international relations course changed direction entirely. She switched to political science, specialising in international relations, then completed a Master’s at Yale. From there came speechwriting for the Secretary General of the Organization of American States, followed by political analysis at hedge fund Omega Advisors and on the currency trading floor at UBS.
The work was analytical, but Lush realised she was most interested in the part that happened before the analysis – going out, talking to people and finding the story.
That took her into journalism. She became an Economics and Political Correspondent at Bloomberg Television and went on to write and report for outlets including the BBC, The Spectator, Prospect and The Week. As Executive Editor of Hub Culture, she has conducted thousands of interviews around the world, from Davos and COP climate summits to the UN General Assembly.
In 2018, she co-created and co-hosted Global GoalsCast, a podcast built around the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the people working to achieve them. Distributed by CBS News Digital, it turned some of the world’s biggest challenges – poverty, migration, education, climate change – into stories about what could actually be done. Her work on the show earned the Media for Social Impact Leadership Council Award at the United Nations.
Her latest project pushes the question further.
We’re All Going To Die!, co-hosted with Mike Oreskes, describes itself as “a guide to surviving life in the Anthropocene”. Its starting point is that humanity’s own inventions – from nuclear weapons to artificial intelligence – have become powerful enough to threaten the systems, and potentially the species, that created them. Guests have included AI pioneer Stuart Russell, Klaus Schwab and Fordham University President Tania Tetlow, in conversations about AI, power, technology and who gets to decide what progress looks like.
Lush started her career analysing how governments and markets respond to change.
Now she is asking what happens when the change itself becomes the risk.
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