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Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Affiliation during program: The Washington Post
Title: Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Alfred A. Knopf, 2006)

	Program: Fall 2004

Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994. He previously served The Post as a bureau chief in Baghdad, Cairo, and Southeast Asia, and as a correspondent covering the war in Afghanistan. He recently completed a term as journalist-in-residence at the International Reporting Project at the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, and was a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center.

As Baghdad bureau chief for The Post, Chandrasekaran had primary responsibility for covering the U.S. intervention in Iraq, focusing on political and military issues. He has supervised a team of American correspondents and more than 20 Iraqi staffers. Before arriving in Baghdad in 2003, he was The Post's Cairo bureau chief, covering Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Oman, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco.

Chandrasekaran joined The Post in 1994 as a reporter on the metropolitan staff. A native of the San Francisco Bay area, he holds a degree in political science from Stanford University, where he was editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily.

Chandrasekaran's first book, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Random House, 2006), is a finalist for the 2006 National Book Awards for non-fiction. Click here for more information on Chandrasekaran's recent lecture sponsored by The Intenational Reproting Project at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

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