For more than four decades, William Drozdiak has been regarded as one of the most knowledgeable American observers of European affairs.  During his tenure as foreign editor of the Washington Post, the newspaper won Pulitzer Prizes for its international reporting on the Israeli—Palestinian conflict and the collapse of the Soviet communist empire. He also was the Post’s chief European correspondent, based at various times in Bonn, Berlin, Paris and Brussels, and covered the Middle East for Time magazine. He later became the founding executive director of the German Marshall Fund’s Transatlantic Center in Brussels and served for ten years as president of the American Council on Germany.

He is now a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council and senior visiting fellow with the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Study at the European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy. Before becoming a journalist, he played professional basketball in the United States and Europe for seven years.

His highly acclaimed book, “Fractured Continent: Europe’s Crises and the Fate of the West,” was selected by the Financial Times as one of the best political books of 2017. His most recent book explores French President Emmanuel Macron’s controversial domestic, European and foreign policies and is titled “The Last President of Europe: Emmanuel Macron’s Race to Revive France and Change the World.”  For his achievements as a journalist and author, he was awarded France’s Legion of Honor and Germany’s Federal Cross of Merit. His current research and book project will examine Europe’s challenges and opportunities in a new age of great power rivalry.