Sasha Polakow-Suransky

Sasha Polakow-Suransky (born April 3, 1979) is an American journalist and author. He is currently executive opinion editor at the Financial Times.^[1][2] From 2017-early 2025, he was a deputy editor of Foreign Policy, and before that editor of international opinion at The New York Times op-ed page and a former senior editor of Foreign Affairs.^[3]

In 2015 he was an Open Society Fellow, while writing a book about the political impact of immigration.^[4] His first book, The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa, was published in 2010.^[5] His second book, Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy, was published in 2017.^[6]