David Ignatius

David Ignatius writes a twice-a-week foreign affairs column for The Washington Post. He joined The Post in 1986 as editor of its Sunday Outlook section. In 1990, he became foreign editor, and in 1993, assistant managing editor for business news. He began writing his column in 1998 and continued even during a three-year stint as executive editor of The International Herald Tribune in Paris. Earlier in his career, Ignatius was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covering at various times the steel industry, the State and Justice departments, the CIA, the Senate and the Middle East. As The Post’s foreign editor, Ignatius supervised the paper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, and he has received many other accolades for his work.

Ignatius grew up in Washington and studied political theory at Harvard College and economics at Kings College, Cambridge. He lives in Washington with his wife and has three daughters. Ignatius has written 12 spy novels; “Body of Lies” was made into a 2008 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe.