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".