During a 30-year career at Newsweek magazine, Arnaud de Borchgrave covered most of the world’s major news events, including 18 wars. At 21, he was appointed Brussels bureau chief of United Press International (UPI), and three years later, he was named Newsweek’s bureau chief in Paris. At 27, he became senior editor of the magazine, a position he held for 25 years. He was appointed editor-in-chief of the Washington Times in 1985. He left his post with the Washington Times in 1991 to join CSIS as a senior adviser and director of the Global Organized Crime Project, which became the Transnational Threats Project after 9/11.

He has served as president and CEO of UPI (1999–2001) and continues to serve as editor-at-large for both UPI and the Washington Times. His awards include “Best Magazine Reporting from Abroad” and “Best Magazine Interpretation of Foreign Affairs.” In 1981, de Borchgrave received the World Business Council’s Medal of Honor, and in 1985, he was awarded the George Washington Medal of Honor for Excellence in Published Works. In 2007, the Phillips Foundation honored de Borchgrave with its Lifetime Achievement Award. At CSIS, he has coauthored Open Source Information: The Missing Dimension of Intelligence (2006); Cyber Threats and Information Security: Meeting the 21^st Century Challenge (2001); Russian Organized Crime and Corruption: Putin’s Challenge (2000); Cybercrime, Cyberterrorism, Cyberwarfare: Averting an Electronic Waterloo (1998); and The Nuclear Black Market (1996).