Colum Lynch is an award-winning foreign policy and national security journalist. He has served as a blogger and senior diplomatic reporter for Foreign Policy Magazine for the past decade, publishing groundbreaking reporting on international sanctions, U.N. corruption, the rise of China’s diplomatic soft-power, and the Trump’s administration’s political targeting of State Department civil servants, including a series of stories which helped trigger an investigation by the department’s Inspector General. 

Lynch first came to Foreign Policy in 2010, to write the U.N. blog, Turtle Bay, which was co-published by the Washington Post and Foreign Policy. The blog – which ran through 2013 –became a must read for international diplomats, scholars, students and foreign ministry officials and won the 2011 National Magazine Award for best reporting in digital media. The then U.N. Secretary General Ban-Ki moon confessed to being an avid reader, if not always a fan. 

Since then, Lynch has published countless scoops and exposés -- from Jared Kushner’s secret pre-inauguration campaign to torpedo’s Obama administration’s Middle East policy to multipart investigations into U.N. sanctions and peacekeeping. In 2013, Lynch was the silver medal recipient of the Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize for a three-part series detailing the U.N.’s systemic failure to protect civilians in Darfur, Sudan, A collaboration with four European news outlets, Le Monde, Radio France Internationale, Swedish Television and Süddeutsche Zeitung, into the U.N. coverup of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s role was awarded an International Emmy. 

Before coming to Foreign Policy, Lynch was the U.N. correspondent for the Washington Post, from 1999 to 2010, playing a central role in the paper’s diplomatic coverage in the runup to the Iraq war, the war on terror, human rights, and war crimes. Before that, Lynch reported for the Boston Globe, breaking major stories on a U.S. spying operation in Iraq, and the U.N. suppression of evidence of genocide in Rwanda. Lynch was the first American reporter to report on the now notorious cable from the Canadian force commander, Roméo Dallaire, warning of the coming genocide. 

Education: University of California at Berkeley, Bachelor of Arts. Columbia University School of Journalism, Masters. 

Contact: lynch.colum@gmail.com 

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