Robin Wright is an American journalist, author and foreign affairs analystwho has reported from more than 140 countries on six continents for TheWashington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Times of London, CBS Newsand The Christian Science Monitor. She has also written for The New Yorker,TIME magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The International Herald Tribune, Foreign Affairs, Huffington Post, Foreign Policy, and many others. Her foreign tours include the Middle East,Europe, Africa, and as a roving foreign correspondent in Latin America and Asia.She has covered a dozen wars and several revolutions. She most recentlycovered U.S. foreign policy for The Washington Post.Besides a long career in journalism, Ms. Wright has been a fellow at Yale,Duke, Stanford, the U.S. Institute of Peace, theSmithsonian's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Brookings Institution's Saban Center,the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the University of California at Santa Barbara,and the University of Southern California. Shelectures extensively in the United States, Europe and Asia and has been atelevision commentator on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN and MSNBC programs,including "Meet the Press," "Face the Nation," "This Week," "Nightline," thePBS Newshour, "Frontline," "Charlie Rose," "Larry King Live,""Washington Week in Review," "The Colbert Report," and HBO's "Real Time," as well asmany other programs. A graduate of the University of Michigan, she lives inWashington D.C.
The American Academy of Diplomacy selected Wright as the journalistof the year for her "distinguished reporting and analysis of internationalaffairs" in 2004. She was also awarded the U.N. Correspondents AssociationGold Medal for analysis and coverage of international affairs, and theNational Press Club award for diplomatic reporting. Among many other awards,she has received the National Magazine Award for her reportage from Iran inThe New Yorker and the Overseas Press Club Award for "best reporting in anymedium requiring exceptional courage and initiative" for coverage of Africanwars. She is the recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthurFoundation grant.