[1] Crabtree writes columns for Nikkei Asian Review,[2] Foreign Policy,[3] and The Straits Times.

Previously, he was the Singapore-based executive director of the Asia branch of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

[8] In 2007, Crabtree joined the UK Prime Minister's Strategy Unit, working initially as part of the team that produced the Power of Information Review, led by Ed Mayo and Tom Steinberg, in June that year.

[10] From 2010, Crabtree worked for the Financial Times, first on the newspaper’s opinion page in London and then as Mumbai bureau chief between 2011 and 2016.

[14] In November 2018, The Billionaire Raj was named Business Book of the Year at the Tata LitLive!