Dana
Priest is an author and a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. She has worked
for the Washington Post for fifteen years, covering national security, the intelligence
community and the War on Terror. She was one of the first reporters on the ground
for the invasion of Panama in 1989, reported on Iraq in late 1990, and covered
the 1999 Kosovo War from air bases in Europe. In 2001, Priest was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing grant. The same year, she won the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on national defense for her series "The Proconsuls: A Four-Star Foreign Policy?" as well as the State Department's Excellence in Journalism Award. She was awarded the George Polk Award for National Reporting in 2005 and the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 2006. She also was a guest scholar-in-residence at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
Priest holds a B.A. in political science from the University of California at Santa Cruz. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband and two children.
William
Pfaff is a celebrated author and columnist, whose writings have been featured
in the New Yorker, Foreign Affairs, the International Herald Tribune and the
Tribune Media Services International. Pfaff has previously served as an executive
of the Free Europe Committee, deputy director of Hudson Research Europe, Ltd.,
and has authored eight books on American foreign policy.