Steve Coll

President and CEO, New America Foundation

Steve Coll is president and CEO of New America Foundation, and a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine. Previously he spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent and senior editor at the Washington Post, serving as the paper’s managing editor from 1998 to 2004. He is the author of six books, including Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (2004), which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005. Coll had already been awarded a Pulitzer in 1990 for explanatory journalism. His 2008 book The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century was a finalist in the National Book Critics Circle Award.