George Packer

A staff writer for The New Yorker, Packer is author of, among other titles, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, that analyzes the events that led to the 2003 U.S. invasion and subsequent developments, largely based on interviews with ordinary Iraqis. He has also written about atrocities in Sierra Leone, civil unrest in the Ivory Coast and global counterinsurgency. His latest book is Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade.