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Lebanon Kim Ghattas is an Emmy-award winning journalist and author who provides incisive analysis on Middle Eastern affairs, international relations, and U.S. foreign policy. She delivers her expertise to diverse audiences, including policymakers and academic institutions.
Chair of the Board from June 2020 to April 2023. Member of the Board since June 2020.
Contributing writer.
Distinguished Fellow.
Serves on the board of trustees.
Serves on the board.
Serves on the advisory council.
Hosted a multi-part podcast titled “People Like Us” from Beirut, in partnership with PRX.
Partnered with Project Brazen for the podcast “People Like Us.”
Contributing editor and journalist.
Former nonresident senior fellow (2017–2022).
Former public policy fellow (2017).
Former fellow (2019).
Kim Ghattas was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1977 and grew up during the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990). She attended the American University of Beirut, where she studied political science, and concurrently began her journalism career as an intern at an English-language newspaper in Beirut. Her early career involved reporting for the Financial Times and the BBC from the Middle East, establishing her foundation in international journalism. In early 2008, Ghattas moved to Washington, D.C., to cover the U.S. State Department for the BBC, a role that provided her with access to key decision-makers and insights into American foreign policy.
Her career progressed to include significant literary achievements and analytical contributions. In 2013, Ghattas authored “The Secretary: A Journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the Heart of American Power,” a New York Times bestseller detailing her experiences traveling with Hillary Clinton during her tenure as Secretary of State. She later covered Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign for the BBC. Ghattas further solidified her reputation with “Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East,” published in 2020. This critically acclaimed work was recognized by The New York Times as one of the “100 Notable Books of 2020” and has become a reference for academic and diplomatic communities.
Currently, Kim Ghattas is a contributing writer for The Atlantic magazine and a regular contributor to the Financial Times. She is also a Distinguished Fellow at Columbia University’s Institute of Global Politics. Ghattas is on a writing sabbatical until Spring 2025, working on her third book, which explores Lebanon’s civil war as a foundational element of the U.S.-Iran conflict in the Middle East, slated for release in 2026. She serves on the board of trustees for the American University of Beirut. From 2020 to 2023, she chaired the board of directors for the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism network. Her prior affiliations include being a nonresident senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2017–2022) and a public policy fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2017).
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