Steven Erlanger

Steven Erlanger is the Chief Diplomatic Correspondent of The New York Times, based in Brussels since August 217. He was London bureau chief of The New York Times for four years, from August 213, after five years as bureau chief in Paris and before that, four years as bureau chief in Jerusalem. He has served as Berlin bureau chief, bureau chief for Central Europe and the Balkans, based in Prague, and chief diplomatic correspondent, based in Washington. From 1991 to 1995, he was posted in Moscow, after being Bangkok bureau chief and Southeast Asia correspondent from 1988 to 1991.

In New York, he was Culture Editor from 22 to 24.

Previously, he worked for The Boston Globe. He was European correspondent, based in London, 1983-87, and deputy national and foreign editor. He reported from Eastern Europe, Moscow and revolutionary Iran.

He shared the 217 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for a series on Russia and shared another for Explanatory Reporting for a series on Al Qaeda awarded in 22. He also has won ASNE’s 21 Jesse Laventhol prize for deadline reporting for his work in the former Yugoslavia and the German Marshall Fund’s Peter Weitz Prize in 2. He was awarded the 25 Eliav-Sartawi Award for Middle East journalism. In 213, France made him a chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur.

He graduated from Harvard College in 1974 and studied Russian at St. Antony’s College, Oxford.