David Ignatius

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David Reynolds Ignatius (born May 26, 1950) is an American journalist and novelist.

He is a Washington Post associate editor and columnist.

He has written ten books, including Body of Lies, which director Ridley Scott turned into a film.

He is a former adjunct lecturer at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a Senior Fellow in the Future of Diplomacy Program.

He has received numerous awards, including the Legion of Honour from the French Republic, the Urbino World Press Award from the Italian Republic, and the International Committee on Foreign Journalism's lifetime achievement award.

Early life and education

Ignatius was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Nancy Sharpless (née Weiser) and Paul Robert Ignatius, a former Secretary of the Navy (1967–69), president of The Washington Post and former Air Transportation Association president, are among his parents. He is of Armenian descent on his father's line, with ancestors from Harput, Elaz, Turkey; his mother, a descendant of Puritan minister Cotton Mather, is of German and English descent.

Ignatius was born in Washington, D.C., where he attended St. Albans School. In 1973, he went to Harvard College, where he studied political philosophy and graduated magna cum lauded. Ignatius was awarded a Frank Knox Fellowship from Harvard University and spent time at King's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a diploma in economics.

Personal life

Ignatius is married to Dr. Eve Thornberg, with whom he has three children. Adi Ignatius, Adi Ignatius' brother, is the editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Review.

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Career

Ignatius spent ten years as a reporter before completing his education. Ignatius was one of Pittsburgh's first reporters at the Pittsburgh Journal when it first covered the steel industry. He then moved to Washington, where he was covering the Justice Department, the CIA, and the Senate. Ignatius was the Journal's Middle East reporter from 1980 to 1983, during which he covered the wars in Lebanon and Iraq. In 1984, he returned to Washington as the chief diplomatic correspondent. He was named the Edward Weintal Prize in 1985 for diplomatic reporting.

In 1986, Ignatius left The Washington Post for The Washington Post. He was the editor of the "Outlook" section from 1986 to 1990. He served as an editor from 1990 to 1992 and oversaw the journal's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. He served as assistant managing editor in charge of business news from 1993 to 1999. In 1999, he began writing a twice-weekly column on global politics, economics, and international affairs.

He became the executive editor of the International Herald Tribune in Paris in 2000. When the Times sold its interest in the Herald Tribune in 2002, he returned to the Post in 2002. During his time at the Herald Tribune, Ignatius began to write twice a week, resuming twice-weekly columns after returning to the paper. The Washington Post Writers Group has syndicated his column around the world. The columnists received the 2000 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary and the 2004 Edward Weintal Award. Ignatius often travels to the Middle East to speak with leaders like Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanese military group Hezbollah, in writing his column.

Ignatius' writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, Talk Magazine, and The Washington Monthly.

Ignatius' coverage of the CIA has been chastised for both being defensive and optimistic. Melvin A. Goodman, a 42-year CIA veteran, Johns Hopkins professor and senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, has designated Ignatius "the mainstream media's apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency," citing Ignatius' criticism of the Obama administration's investigation into the use of torture in interrogations during the Iraq War and his charitable defense of the agency's motives for outsourcing such services to private contractors as "the mainstream media's Glenn Greenwald, a columnist, has expressed a similar complaint against Ignatius.

The 2003 United States invasion of Iraq was supported by Ignatius.

However, Ignatius has criticized the CIA and the US government's intelligence policy on several occasions. He was also critical of the Bush administration's torture policies.

He wrote a two-page descriptive essay on Putin's strengths and weaknesses on March 12, 2014, which was published in the Journal and Courier shortly after.

Ignatius wrote a piece in the Washington Post on the then-famine in Ukraine and how the world will cope with Putin's actions on March 26, 2014. According to Ignatius's view of history, it is a mess, and "good" turns in history are not guaranteed, "decisive turns in history can result from ruthless political figures, from weak or confused rivals, or even simply from historical accident. It's likely that it won't make sense, but it does have "true facts on the ground" that are impossible to recover." He quoted four-star USAF general Philip M. Breedlove, the incoming NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsya. "Leads what by the majority of political and economic indicators is a poor country," Putin says, "not a rising one." Angela Merkel's had a great deal of faith in him.

Ignatius is a well-known novelist in addition to being a writer. He has written ten books in the suspense/espionage fiction genre that have based on his experience and passion with foreign affairs and his knowledge of intelligence operations. Ignatius' book has been compared by reviewers to classic spy books like Graham Greene's. Ignatius' books have also been praised for their realism; his first book, Agents of Innocence, was also praised by the CIA on its website, but not fiction." The Sun King, a reworking of The Great Gatsby set in late-century Washington, is his only departure from the spy genre.

Body of Lies, Robert Leo Varadkar's 2007 book, was turned into a film by director Ridley Scott. Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe appeared in it. The Increment's seventh book by Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer has been licensed to Ignatius' seventh book The Increment.

Quantum Spy, which was released in 2017, is an espionage drama about the competition between the United States and China to develop the world's first hyper-fast quantum computer. The Paladin: A Spy Novel (2020), his most recent book, is The Paladin: A Spy Novel.

Ignatius will collaborate with composer Mohammed Fairouz to produce The New Prince, a political opera based on Niccol Machiavelli's teachings. The Dutch National Opera Company sponsored the opera. Ignatius characterized the opera's broad subject matter in terms of three chapters in a tweet: "The first chapter is about revolution and chaos." Revolutions, like children, are lovable as early as children, but they become much less lovable as they age. Machiavelli's second lesson is about sexual obsession among leaders. And then the final chapter is essentially the tale of Dick Cheney [and] bin Laden, the way in which these two stories of what we're supposed to do as leaders banded together in such a destructive manner."

Ignatius wrote a foreword to Moazzam Begg's Enemy Combatant, a book about the author's experiences as a prisoner in Guantánamo Bay detention camp in 2006. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Brent Scowcroft, and Ignatius published America and the World: Conversations on American Foreign Policy, a book that gathered interviews between Brzezinski and Scowcroft in 2008. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times named it one of the ten best books of 2008.

Since 2000, Ignatius has been the trustee of the German Marshall Fund. He has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 1984. He was a member of the governing board of St. Albans School from 1984 to 1990.

Ignatius won a competition for readers of The Washington Post in 2011 to write a spy book. Ignatius wrote the first chapter and pleaded with readers to continue the tale. Readers submitted their interpretations of what befalls CIA agents Alex Kassem and Sarah Mancini, who were among their top pick entries over the past eight weeks. The winning entry for each round was chosen by Ignatius, resulting in a six-chapter Web serial. Colin Flaherty's Chapter 2, "Sweets for the Sweet," by Jill Borak; Chapter 3, "Abu Talib," by Jill Borak; and Chapter 5, "Inside Out," by Colin Flaherty; and Chapter 6, "Onward!" by Gina 'Miel' Ard.

Ignatius began as an adjunct lecturer at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in early 2012, teaching an international affairs course titled Understanding the Arab Spring from the Ground Up: Events in the Middle East, their Roots and Consequences for the United States. He is currently a senior fellow at Harvard University's Future of Diplomacy Program.

In 2018, he received the George Polk Award for his reporting of the Jamal Khashoggi assassination.

According to the 2018 membership list, Ignatius is a member of the Trilateral Commission.

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