Dexter Filkins

Dexter Filkins, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times , has covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. Before that, he worked for the Los Angeles Times , where he was chief of the paper's New Delhi bureau, and for The Miami Herald . In 2009, he was part of a team of Times reporters who won a Pulitzer Prize for covering Afghanistan and Pakistan. He has received a George Polk Award and two Overseas Press Club awards. Most recently, he was a fellow at the Carr Center for Human...See more

Dexter Filkins, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times , has covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. Before that, he worked for the Los Angeles Times , where he was chief of the paper's New Delhi bureau, and for The Miami Herald . In 2009, he was part of a team of Times reporters who won a Pulitzer Prize for covering Afghanistan and Pakistan. He has received a George Polk Award and two Overseas Press Club awards. Most recently, he was a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. He lives in New York City. See less