Patrick Kingsley

About

I am an award-winning author and international correspondent for the New York Times. I have reported from more than 50 countries and territories, and I led teams that won the Pulitzer, Polk and Overseas Press Club awards for international reporting.Since January 2021, I have been the NYT's Jerusalem Bureau Chief, leading coverage of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, and managing a team of 15. Previously I was a roving correspondent based in Berlin, working on longer-term reporting projects. I joined the paper in January 2017.Before that, I worked for the Guardian for nearly seven years, reporting from across the Middle East, mainly covering the aftermath of the Arab uprisings. I was based first in Cairo, where I was the Guardian’s Egypt correspondent, and then in Istanbul, where I was the paper's migration correspondent, covering the European migration crisis. I covered the Egyptian coup of 2013, the massacres in and around Rabaa al-Adawiya, and I made the last interview with the then Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, before his ousting that summer. I have also covered the Libyan civil war; the failed Turkish coup of 2016; the rise of Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister; and the Gaza war of 2021.I have written two books. The New Odyssey (2016) was a chronicle of the European refugee crisis, based on reportage from 17 countries along the migration trail. It has been translated into 10 languages. My first book — How To Be Danish (2012) — was an exploration of Danish culture.I have lectured on migration at Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge universities. I gave the 2016 Harrell-Bond Lecture at Oxford, an annual address that has previously been made by the heads of both the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, and the United Nations refugee agency, Filippo Grandi.I often appear on international television and radio channels, including CNN, BBC, PBS, ABC, CBC, RTE and ARD.I was born in London in June 1989. I have a first-class degree in English Literature from Cambridge University, and a diploma in journalism from the National Council for the Training of Journalists.