Carnegie Council

Barbara Crossette was a journalist at The New York Times from 1973 to 2001, the last seven years as chief of its UN bureau. She is now a travel essayist and freelance writer on foreign policy and international affairs.

Previously she had been a correspondent in Southeast Asia, based in Bangkok; in South Asia, based in New Delhi; and a diplomatic reporter in the Washington bureau. She has also reported from Central America and the Caribbean, and served as senior editor in charge of weekend news operations. In 1991, Ms. Crossette won the George Polk Award for foreign reporting for her coverage of the assassination of the former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

She is the author of India Facing the 21st Century (1993); So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas (1995); and The Great Hill Stations of Asia (1998).

Crossette has been a member of the adjunct faculty of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism; a Fulbright teaching fellow at Punjab University in Chandigarh, India; the 1994 Ferris Visiting Professor on Politics and the Press at Princeton University, and a Knight International Press Fellow in Brazil 2004-2005.

Resources by this Author:

• Barbara Crossette Interviews Nandan Nilekani
• Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation
• Barbara Crossette Interviews Nandan Nilekani
• Barbara Crossette Interviews Nandan Nilekani (19:04 mins)
• The Parliament of Man (Paul Kennedy); Secretary or General? (Simon Chesterman, editor); The Best Intentions (James Traub) [Full Text]
• The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power