Robin Wright
Award-Winning Journalist, New Yorker Columnist, Author, and Leading Expert on the Middle East, Iran, and U.S. Foreign Policy
- Currently a columnist for The New Yorker, Wright has reported from more than 150 countries across all seven continents, with major postings throughout the Middle East, Asia, Europe and Africa as well as on expeditions to the North Pole and Antarctica
- Former fellow at the Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, U.S. Institute of Peace, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Duke, Yale, Stanford, and Dartmouth
- Recipient of the UN Correspondents Gold Medal, National Magazine Award for coverage of Iran, the Overseas Press Club Award for “exceptional courage” in reporting on African wars, and named Journalist of the Year by the American Academy of Diplomacy. Author of several award-winning books.
- Draws on decades as a diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post, L.A. Times, and CBS News to give audiences a firsthand, on-the-ground understanding of global affairs and the forces shaping U.S. foreign policy
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About Robin Wright
Download ProfileRobin Wright is a columnist for The New Yorker and the author of several award-winning books on foreign affairs. She has reported from more than 150 countries on all seven continents, including expeditions to the North Pole and Antarctica. She was based for more than two decades in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and Africa and was a roving correspondent in the Americas–North, Central and South America—and Australia. She has traveled with several U.S. presidents and secretaries of state as well as Pope John Paul II (across four continents).
Wright has also been a fellow at the Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, U.S. Institute of Peace, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Yale, Duke, Stanford, Dartmouth, and the University of California.
She is the recipient of several awards, including the U.N. Correspondents Gold Medal for coverage of international affairs, the National Magazine Award for coverage from Iran, the Overseas Press Club Award for the “best reporting in any medium requiring exceptional courage and initiative” for coverage of African wars, Journalist of the Year by the American Academy of Diplomacy for coverage of U.S. foreign policy, and the National Press Club award for diplomatic reporting.
She is a former diplomatic correspondent for The Washington Post, L.A. Times, CBS News and The Sunday Times of London. She has also written for The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy and several other publications.
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 by the Overseas Press Club. Her books have been translated in five languages. Wright is a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awardee.
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Robin Wright | The Middle East as I Have Witnessed It: A Lifetime in Photos
Robin Wright | The Middle East as I Have Witnessed It: A Lifetime in Photos
Speech Topics
Download TopicsA MacArthur “Genius” Fellow with decades on the ground across the region, Wright goes beyond the headlines to the people rewriting the Middle East’s future — reformist judges, feminist organizers, underground bloggers — and explains how their quiet defiance is reshaping a region the world still misreads.
Few reporters have covered Iran as closely, or as long, as Wright — reporting that earned her a National Magazine Award. She walks audiences through how a nuclear standoff, a shifting regional balance of power, and decades of failed diplomacy have made Iran the country Washington can least afford to misunderstand.
Having reported from more than 150 countries on all seven continents — including expeditions to both the North Pole and Antarctica — Wright brings a rare, ground-level vantage point to the political, economic and military currents reshaping the century, and what they mean for the decisions leaders make next.
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