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Elizabeth Becker
Elizabeth Becker is an author and journalist who has covered international affairs for over three decades. She began her career as a war correspondent for The Washington Post and has been the senior foreign editor at National Public Radio and a Washington correspondent at The New York Times. She is an expert on the Khmer Rouge and is currently a fellow at the German Marshall Foundation.
She was the international economics correspondent of the New York Times, where she also covered the Pentagon and agriculture and served as the Assistant Washington Editor for foreign and financial news. She received two DuPont-Columbia Awards as executive producer for NPR’s coverage of South Africa and Rwanda and has received awards and citations from the Overseas Press Club and the North American Agricultural Journalists. She continues to contribute to the International Herald Tribune and her articles have appeared in numerous Asian, European and American magazines and journals.
She is the author of WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER, A history of modern Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, which won a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and has been in print since 1986. She is also so the author of AMERICA’S VIETNAM WAR, a narrative history for young adults. She is currently writing a family memoir that concerns modern agriculture.
She holds a degree in South Asian studies from the University of Washington and studied at the Kendriya Hindi Sansthaan in Agra, India. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of the board of directors of the Arthur Burns Foundation and Oxfam America.
Elizabeth Becker is an author and journalist who has covered international affairs for over three decades. She began her career as a war correspondent for The Washington Post and has been the senior foreign editor at National Public Radio and a Washington correspondent at The New York Times. She is an expert on the Khmer Rouge and is currently a fellow at the German Marshall Foundation.
She was the international economics correspondent of the New York Times, where she also covered the Pentagon and agriculture and served as the Assistant Washington Editor for foreign and financial news. She received two DuPont-Columbia Awards as executive producer for NPR’s coverage of South Africa and Rwanda and has received awards and citations from the Overseas Press Club and the North American Agricultural Journalists. She continues to contribute to the International Herald Tribune and her articles have appeared in numerous Asian, European and American magazines and journals.
She is the author of WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER, A history of modern Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, which won a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and has been in print since 1986. She is also so the author of AMERICA’S VIETNAM WAR, a narrative history for young adults. She is currently writing a family memoir that concerns modern agriculture.
She holds a degree in South Asian studies from the University of Washington and studied at the Kendriya Hindi Sansthaan in Agra, India. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of the board of directors of the Arthur Burns Foundation and Oxfam America.
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