Serge Schmemann

Serge Schmemann is an award winning journalist,writer and broadcaster. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for coverage of the reunification of Germany and an Emmy in 2003 for his work on a television documentary about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He was the deputy foreign editor of the New York Times from 1999 to 2001, having previously served as a Times correspondent and bureau chief in Moscow, Bonn and Jerusalem and at the United Nations. From 2003 to 2013 he worked as editorial page editor of The International Herald Tribune in Paris.  A graduate of Harvard College he holds an M.A. from Columbia University. He has  authored two books and is a member of the editorial board of the New York Times. He lives in Washington DC.