Roger Cohen

Award-winning journalist and author Roger Cohen is one of the most talented, hard-hitting international reporters today. Cohen’s illustrious career has spanned some of the most prestigious news outlets in the nation and abroad, from his positions at The New York Times to his time working for The Wall Street Journal. In addition to his numerous contributions to news, is also the author of two books. Currently he is The International Herald Tribune's first Editor-at-Large and an Op-Ed columnist, as well as a foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times.

During his expansive career at The Times, Cohen has reported from all over the globe. Beginning as a media reporter in 1990, he continued on to become bureau chief of the newspaper's Berlin office, a correspondent in its Paris bureau, and the Balkan bureau chief based in Zagreb. Most recently, Cohen acted as the foreign editor for The New York Times before taking his current position at the International Herald Tribune.

Prior to joining The New York Times, Cohen was a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. In 1983, he opened The Wall Street Journal Europe office in Rome as chief correspondent, covering Italy and the East Mediterranean, and reporting from Cyprus, Greece, Turkey and Lebanon. He also opened The Journal's office in Rio de Janeiro as chief correspondent for South America.

Early in his career, Cohen served as foreign correspondent for Reuters, spending his time based in London, Brussels and then Rome, reporting on the European Community, NATO, Belgium, Italy and the Vatican. His stint at Reuters brought him back to the beginning of his career, which began as a freelance reporter in Paris.

He has also authored several works, including Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo, an account of the wars of Yugoslavia's destruction, and Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble, the story of some 550 American prisoners of war forced into the horrifying conditions of German labor camps at the end of WWII. Cohen also co-wrote a biography of General Norman Schwarzkopf, In the Eye of the Storm, with Claudio Gatti.

The Oxford graduate and London native was awarded the Joe Alex Morris lectureship for distinguished foreign correspondence by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, and served as Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University, as well as numerous other awards.