Roger Cohen has worked for The New York Times for 33 years as a foreign correspondent, foreign editor, columnist, and currently Paris Bureau Chief.

 

As foreign editor, he oversaw post-9/11 international coverage in a year that

The Times won seven Pulitzers. Prior to joining The Times, he worked for

The Wall Street Journal and Reuters.

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He is the author of four books, including a family memoir entitled

"The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family" (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 in 2012 and, in 1995, the Overseas Press Club of America Burger Human Rights Award for his investigation of torture and murder at a

Serb-run Bosnian concentration camp. In 2017, he was awarded the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) prize for Opinion writing for a series on Australian mistreatment of refugees. He won the same award in 2018 for a piece about the Rohingya crisis in Burma.

In February 2023, he received a George Polk Award as part of a remarkable New York Times team for coverage of the war in Ukraine.

 

In 2021, Mr. Cohen received the Légion d’Honneur from the French Republic –

France’s highest order of merit – for his work over four decades.

 

Raised in South Africa and England, an Oxford graduate,

he is a naturalized American.