Ms Susan Glasser

Ms Susan Glasser is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a Board Member of the Lowy Institute. She writes a weekly column on Washington politics and is co-author of several books, including two New York Times bestsellers.

Ms Glasser has served as the top editor of several Washington publications, including Politico, where she founded Politico Magazine, and Foreign Policy, where her relaunch of the publication earned three National Magazine Awards. Before that, she spent a decade at The Washington Post as editor of Outlook and national news, and served four years as the paper's Moscow co-bureau chief, covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. She began her career at Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper, rising from intern to editor.

Her books include Kremlin Rising, on Vladimir Putin's consolidation of power in Russia, and the New York Times bestsellers The Man Who Ran Washington, a biography of Secretary of State James A. Baker III, and The Divider, covering Donald Trump's first term in the White House. All three were co-written with her husband, Peter Baker.