David A. Andelman

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Previously he served as Executive Editor of Forbes.com, the world’s largest business and financial website. Earlier, he was a domestic and foreign correspondent for The New York Times in various posts in New York and Washington, Southeast Asia bureau chief, based in Bangkok, then East European bureau chief, based in Belgrade. He then moved to CBS News where he served for seven years as a Paris correspondent and has traveled through and reported from more than 60 countries.

There followed service as a Washington correspondent for CNBC, news editor of Bloomberg News and business editor of The New York Daily News.

He is the author of four books: The Peacemakers, The Fourth World War, A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today, and Red Lines. Andelman has written for Harpers, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, Foreign Policy and Foreign Affairs. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and is a board member of the OPC, Council on Foreign Relations, the Century Association, the Harvard Club of New York, the National Press Club and the Grolier Club.

As president of the Overseas Press Club, he would like to continue to grow the legacy of this extraordinary institution, raise the reach, influence and exposure of its awards and its activities to promote a free press and the ability of reporters to function in the entire range of media in all nations, and above all to enrich the experience of OPC members.