2017 Presentation: Roger Cohen

Journalist Roger Cohen has been with The New York Times since 1990 — as a foreign correspondent, foreign editor and, most recently, op-ed columnist whose pieces on the Trump Administration and international relations appear every Wednesday and Saturday. Born in London and raised in South Africa, he is a naturalized American citizen whose career has taken him from Beirut to Berlin, Iran to the Balkans. His coverage of the Bosnian War and related genocide won him the Burger Human Rights Award in 1995 from the Overseas Press Club of America, and he went on to write a retrospective book about his Balkan experiences called Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo. He is also the author of four other books, including his 2015 memoir The Girl from Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family, and his work has appeared in publications that range from The Wall Street Journal to The International Herald Tribune. He was a subject in the 2015 Mountainfilm documentary The Diplomat.