Steve Coll is a visiting senior editor at The Economist. Previously he was Dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a staff writer at the New Yorker. Prior to joining Columbia he was president of the New America Foundation, a think tank in Washington. Earlier he was a reporter and senior editor at The Washington Post, where his roles included New York financial correspondent, South Asia correspondent in New Delhi, international investigative correspondent in London, editor of the Sunday magazine, and managing editor. Coll is the author of nine nonfiction books about business and international affairs. They include Ghost Wars, about the run-up to 9/11, which received the Pulitzer Prize; Private Empire, about ExxonMobil; and most recently, The Achilles Trap (2024), about the United States and Saddam Hussein.
