Editor, The Electric
Steve is editor of The Electric, a publication on batteries and electric vehicles owned by The Information. He is author of The Powerhouse: America, China and the Great Battery War, and a senior fellow with SAFE, a renewable energy think tank.
Previously, Steve was a foreign correspondent in the former Soviet Union, running a bureau covering the Caucasus and Central Asia for The Wall Street Journal, and before that covering the region for The New York Times. Prior to that, he was based as a correspondent in Pakistan for Newsweek, and before that was posted to the Philippines. Before launching The Electric, Steve conceived and launched the Future newsletter at Axios.
The Powerhouse is Steve's third book, and was long-listed for FT Book of the Year in 2015. Previously, his book The Oil and the Glory, chronicling the struggle for fortune and power on the Caspian Sea, was selected by BusinessWeek as a Top 10 book for 2007. In 2008, Random House published Putin's Labyrinth, a profile of Russia through the life and death of a half-dozen Russians.