Robin Wright is journalist, author and analyst who has reported from more than 140 countries on all seven continents. She is currently a columnist for The New Yorker and a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. For decades, she has reported on global issues, political trends, societal shifts, wars and revolutions for The Washington Post, CBS News, TIME, The New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Times of London and many other publications. Her foreign tours include the Middle East, Europe, Asia, and Africa, with extensive travels in Latin America and Antarctica.

Wright has also been a fellow at the Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Yale, Duke, Stanford, Dartmouth, and the University of California. She has been a frequent television commentator on all the major morning and evening newscasts on NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, CNN, and MSNBC, including major shows such as “Meet the Press,” “This Week,” “Face the Nation,” “Washington Week in Review,” the PBS “Newshour,” “Frontline,” “Nightline,” “Amanpour,” “The Colbert Report,” and HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.

She is the recipient of several awards, including the United Nations Correspondents Association Gold Medal for coverage of international affairs, Journalist of the Year by the American Academy of Diplomacy, the Overseas Press Club Award for “best reporting in any medium requiring exceptional courage and initiative” for coverage of African wars, the National Magazine Award for her Iran reportage in The New Yorker, and the National Press Club award for best diplomatic reporting.

She is the author of eight books, including “Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World,” which was selected as the best book on international affairs. Her other books include “Flashpoints: Promise and Peril in a New World,” “Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East,” “The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran,” “Sacred Rage: The Wrath of Militant Islam,” and “In the Name of God: The Khomeini Decade.” Wright is a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awardee.

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