Kim Ghattas is a contributing editor for the Financial Times and a contributing writer for The Atlantic. She was a Distinguished Inaugural Fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for Global Politics. An Emmy Award–winning journalist, she previously reported for the BBC from the Middle East and Washington, D.C. She is the author of Black Wave—a New York Times 100 Notable Book of 2020 on the Saudi-Iran rivalry—and of The Secretary, a New York Times bestseller chronicling her journey with Hillary Clinton from Beirut to the heart of American power. Ghattas serves on the boards of the American University of Beirut and the Global Centre for Pluralism, and on the advisory council of the Atlas of Impunity.
