This person is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment.

Karen DeYoung is on a two-year sabbatical from the Washington Post, where she has worked since 1975. There, she has held a number of leadership positions, including her current position as associate editor. She also has served as assistant managing editor for national news, national editor, London bureau chief, foreign editor, and Latin America bureau chief. She has won a number of awards, including the 2003 Edward Weintal Award for Diplomatic Reporting, Sigma Delta Chi awards for investigative reporting and foreign reporting, and a Pulitzer Prize she shared with several Washington Post colleagues for national coverage of the war on terrorism.