Roger Cohen

Roger Cohen
has worked for The New York Times for 25 years as a foreign correspondent,
foreign editor, and now columnist. Prior to that he worked for The Wall Street
Journal and Reuters. He is the author of four books. The latest, a family
memoir entitled “The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a
Jewish Family,” was published to wide acclaim by Alfred A. Knopf in
January, 2015. He has taught at Harvard and Princeton and his work has been
recognized with several awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from
Britain’s Next Century Foundation and a prize from the Overseas Press Club of
New York. Raised in South Africa and England, a graduate of Balliol College,
Oxford, he is a naturalized American.