Carlotta Gall,

Carlotta Gall is a senior correspondent for The New York Times, currently covering the war in Ukraine. She focuses on the human aspect of wars and civil strife, exposing human rights abuses and war crimes, explaining and understanding terrorism, revealing the people forced to become refugees and migrants, and describing life under repressive regimes and the social resistance to them. Gall began her newspaper career at The Moscow Times in the 1990s, reporting in Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union. She joined The Times in 1999 and covered the war in Kosovo and the fall of President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia. She spent 10 years reporting from Afghanistan and Pakistan after the attacks of 9/11. She was based in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, from 2013-17, covering the aftershocks of the Arab Spring. And from 2017-22, she was the Istanbul bureau chief, covering Turkey and northern Syria. She has been published in The Economist and The Financial Times. Gall is also a Pulitzer Prize winner for coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2009 and a team that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for reporting from Ukraine in 2023. She's authored