Steven Erlanger | |
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 Erlanger speaking at Chatham House in 2015 | |
| Born | October 14, 1952 Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Education | Harvard University (BA) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Notable credit(s) | The New York Times, The Boston Globe |
| Spouse | Elisabeth Erlanger |
Steven J. Erlanger (born October 14, 1952, in Waterbury, Connecticut[1]) is an American journalist who has reported from more than 120 countries. He is the chief diplomatic correspondent for Europe for The New York Times, having moved to Brussels in August 2017 after four years as the paper's bureau chief in London. Erlanger joined the Times in September 1987.
Erlanger is the son of Jay and Florence Erlanger, both deceased.[2] Erlanger graduated from The Taft School in 1970.
After graduating magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Harvard College in 1974 with an A.B. in political philosophy, Erlanger was a teaching fellow at Harvard from 1975 to 1983. Concurrent with this assignment, he was an editor and correspondent for The Boston Globe beginning in 1976, where he served on the national and foreign desks, covered the Iranian Revolution and Solidarity in Poland and was the European correspondent based in London from 1983 to 1987. He has written for numerous magazines, including The Spectator, The Economist, The New Republic, the Financial Times, New Statesman, Columbia Journalism Review, and The National Interest. France made him a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur for services to journalism at the end of 2013. He is also a governor of the Ditchley Foundation.
Erlanger's previous posts at The New Times include:
He is married to Elisabeth Erlanger.[citation needed]
