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Times Journeys #2 — Speakers

Western Europe • October 12–24, 2013

 

ELISABETH BUMILLER

Elisabeth Bumiller is a Pentagon correspondent in the Washington bureau of The New York Times. In 2008 she covered the presidential campaign of Senator John McCain. Previously, from Sept. 10, 2001 to 2006, Ms. Bumiller was a Times White House correspondent who also wrote a weekly column, White House Letter, about the people and behind-the-scenes events of the presidency.

Before moving to Washington, from 1999 to 2001, Ms. Bumiller was the Times City Hall Bureau chief responsible for covering Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and his Senate race against Hillary Rodham Clinton. Prior to that, Ms. Bumiller worked on the Times’ Metropolitan staff in New York as a general assignment reporter and as one of the writers of the Public Lives column. She has also written for The New York Times Magazine and the newspaper’s culture and travel pages.

From 1979 to 1985, Ms. Bumiller worked for The Washington Post in Washington, New Delhi, Tokyo and New York. Her first job in journalism was in the Naples bureau of The Miami Herald.

Ms. Bumiller is the author of three books: Condoleezza Rice: An American Life; May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India and The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family.

In 2006 and 2007, Ms. Bumiller was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center and a Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Ms. Bumiller was born in 1956 in Aalborg, Denmark, grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. From 1995 to 2001, she was the leader of Girl Scout Troop 1511 in Bronxville, N.Y. She now lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband, Steven R. Weisman, and their two children.

TIMOTHY EGAN

Timothy Egan is an online, op-ed columnist for the New York Times, writing his “Opinionator” feature once a week — with a Western perspective. Prior to that, Mr. Egan worked as a national correspondent for the Times, roaming the West. As a Times correspondent, he shares a Pulitzer Prize with a team of reporters for their series, “How Race is Lived in America.”

Mr. Egan is the author of seven books. His book on the Dust Bowl, The Worst Hard Time, won the 2006 National Book Award for nonfiction, considered one of the nation’s highest literary honors.

His most recent book, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher — The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, is a New York Times bestseller and was named one of the best books of 2012 by Publishers Weekly and Amazon.com.

A graduate of the University of Washington, Mr. Egan also holds honorary doctorates of letters from Whitman College, Willamette University and Lewis and Clark College. A third-generation Westerner, Mr. Egan lives in Seattle.

DAVID E. SANGER

David E. Sanger is chief Washington Correspondent of the New York Times and is one of the newspaper’s senior writers. In a 30-year career at the paper, he has reported from New York, Tokyo and Washington, specializing in foreign policy, national security and the politics of globalization.

He is also the author of two New York Times best-sellers: The Inheritance: The World Obama Confronts and the Challenges to American Power, (2009) based on his seven years as the Times’ White House correspondent, and Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power, (2012). Confront and Conceal revealed the depth and scope of American covert operations against Iran’s nuclear program, and described the battles inside the administration over how to handle Pakistan, negotiations with the Taliban, the surprises of the Arab Spring and the rising challenge of China.

Twice Mr. Sanger has been a member of Times reporting teams that won the Pulitzer Prize. He has also won numerous awards for White House and national security coverage, including the Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting in 2004 for his coverage of the Iraq and Korea crises, the Aldo Beckman prize for coverage of the presidency and, in both 2003 and 2007, the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for coverage of national security strategy. In 2007, The New York Times received the DuPont Award from the Columbia Journalism School for Nuclear Jihad: Can Terrorists Get the Bomb?, a documentary featuring Mr. Sanger and his colleague William J. Broad, and their investigation into the A.Q. Khan nuclear proliferation network. Their revelations in the Times about the network became a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Mr. Sanger was born in 1960 and grew up in White Plains, New York. He is a 1982 graduate of Harvard College, and returned to Harvard to be an adjunct lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government. He wrote Confront and Conceal while he was the first National Security and the Press fellow at the school’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Mr. Sanger was a business correspondent, and then bureau chief, in Tokyo, where he wrote some of the first pieces describing North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, the rise and fall of Japan as one of the world’s economic powerhouses, and China’s emerging role as an economic and military power. Returning to Washington in 1994, he took up the position of Chief Washington Economic Correspondent, and covered a series of global economic upheavals, from Mexico to the Asian economic crisis. He was named a senior writer in March 1999, and White House correspondent later that year. He was named Chief Washington Correspondent in October 2006.

Mr. Sanger appears regularly on public affairs and news shows, including Washington Week on PBS, and the Sunday network shows, including Face the Nation, Meet the Pres’ and This Week. He also delivers the weekly Washington Report on WQXR, part of New York Public Radio. He lives in Washington, D.C.

WENDY SCHILLER, PH.D.

Wendy Schiller is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Brown University. She did her undergraduate work in political science at the University of Chicago, served on the staffs of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Governor Mario Cuomo, and then obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. After Fellowships at the Brookings Institution and Princeton University, she came to Brown University in 1994. Among books she has authored or co-authored are Gateways to Democracy: An Introduction to American Government, The Contemporary Congress, and Partners and Rivals: Representation in U.S. Senate Delegations. Her most recent work focuses on the role of money in determining Senate elections, both in the indirect election periods before the adoption of the 17th Amendment in 1913, and in the direct election period in the nearly 100 years since then. She teaches popular courses titled The American Presidency and Introduction to the American Political Process at Brown University. She has been a frequent contributor to major national news outlets such as MSNBC, NPR, CNN.com and Bloomberg News, and she is the political analyst for WJAR10, the local NBC affiliate in Providence.

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