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R. Jeffrey Smith
Affiliation during program:
The Washington Post
Focus:
Corruption in the Balkans
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Program: Spring 2002
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R. Jeffrey Smith recently completed an assignment as The Washington Post's southern Europe bureau chief, a posting begun in 1998 that took him to 11 countries, including Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Croatia, Turkey, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Albania. He is now working on a book about the Balkans.
From 1986 to 1998, he was a national security correspondent for The Post, reporting on foreign policy and defense issues involving the State Department, Pentagon, White House and other government agencies, with particular focus on the Middle East, Southeast Asia, China, North and South Korea, arms proliferation, U.S.-Russian relations and Bosnia.
Smith was a senior writer from 1977 to 1986 for Science magazine, reporting on military affairs, nuclear weapons, the space program and government regulation of food, drugs and the environment. During this time he won two Science in Society Journalism Awards from the National Association of Science Writers.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Smith received a B.A. in Political Science and Public Policy Studies from Duke University and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University.
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