The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Director's Lunch with Karen Elliott House, Belfer Center Senior Fellow and former publisher of The Wall Street Journal on her report “Saudi Arabia: From Defense to Offense, but Can It Score?” in the Belfer Center Library (L369).
Karen Elliott House is a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Elliott House retired in 2006 as publisher of The Wall Street Journal, senior vice president of Dow Jones & Company, and a member of the company’s executive committee. She is a broadly experienced business executive with particular expertise and experience in international affairs stemming from a distinguished career as a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter and editor. She is author of On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines—and Future, published in September 2012 by Knopf. During a 32-year career with Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, Elliott House also served as foreign editor, diplomatic correspondent, and energy correspondent based in Washington D.C. Her journalism awards include a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for coverage of the Middle East (1984), two Overseas Press Club awards for coverage of the Middle East and of Islam and the Edwin M. Hood award for Excellence in Diplomatic Reporting for a series on Saudi Arabia (1982).
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