Jane Perlez

Who is Jane Perlez?

Jane Perlez is a long time foreign correspondent for The New York Times currently serving as Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in China where she is writing about China's role in the world, and the competition between the United States and China, particularly in Asia. Ms. Perlez arrived in Beijing in February 2012 to take up the newly created post.

Ms. Perlez won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for coverage of the war against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, a lead member of the group of New York Times reporters included in the prize for international reporting that year.

At the start of her career as a foreign correspondent, Ms. Perlez was a Pulitzer finalist for coverage of the famine in Somalia, and the dispatch of American forces.

Ms. Perlez served as bureau chief in Nairobi, Kenya from 1988 to 1992 when civil wars were raging in Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia. In 1993, Ms. Perlez became bureau chief in Warsaw, Poland, writing about the emergence of Central Europe from grip of the Cold War. In 1996, she moved to Vienna, a base for covering the Serbian leader, Slobodan Milosevic, and his aggression against Kosovo.