The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Directors' Seminar with Steve Coll on Tuesday, March 11th in the Belfer Center Library (L369).Steve Coll is President & CEO of the New America Foundation and a staff writer at the New Yorker Magazine. Previously he spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent and senior editor at the Washington Post, serving as the paper’s managing editor from 1998 to 2004. His forthcoming book The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century is due out in 2008. Additionally, he is the author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001; On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey into South Asia; Eagle on the Street, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the SEC’s battle with Wall Street with David A. Vise; The Taking of Getty Oil; and The Deal of the Century: The Break Up of AT&T.Mr. Coll’s professional awards include two Pulitzer Prizes. He won the first of these, for explanatory journalism in 1990 for his series, with David A. Vise, about the SEC. His second was awarded in 2005 for his book Ghost Wars, which also won the Council on Foreign Relations’ Arthur Ross award, the Overseas Press Club award and the Lionel Gelber Prize for the best book published on international affairs during 2004. Other awards include the 1992 Livingston Award for outstanding foreign reporting, the 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for his coverage of the civil war in Sierra Leone, and a second Overseas Press Club Award for international magazine writing. Mr. Coll graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Cum Laude, from Occidental College in 1980 with a degree in English and history. RSVP REQUIRED! http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/coll.htmlThis event will be off the record:
