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Claim your profileEducation: Brown University, BA in American History, 1982; Harvard University, Fellow, Russian Research Center, 1992-93; Stanford University, Knight Fellow, 2008-09 Lee Hockstader has been The Washington Post’s European Affairs columnist, based in Paris, since 2023. Prior to his current assignment, he was a member of The Post’s Editorial Board for 19 years and, before that, a Post reporter for 20 years. He has worked in more than 40 countries, including as a foreign correspondent based in Jerusalem, Rome, Moscow and Central America. He also did stints as a national correspondent based in Texas, and as a reporter on The Post’s local staff. Born in New York City, he attended Brown University and, after graduating, spent a year as a Henry Luce Scholar in Southeast Asia. In 2014, he was awarded The Washington Post’s Eugene Meyer Award for lifetime achievement. Honors and Awards: Sigma Delta Chi Award, Editorial Writing, 2015; Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, 2021. Languages spoken in addition to English: French, Spanish, Russian