Join veteran journalist Gerald Seib for a timely conversation examining the Middle East at a critical crossroads. Drawing on more than four decades of reporting on American politics and foreign policy, Seib will offer his perspective on the war with Iran, shifting regional alliances, China’s growing influence and the changing role of the United States in the world and what these developments could mean for the future of global politics and the next generation of global leaders.
The conversation will be moderated by Mary Gallagher, Marilyn Keough Dean, Keough School of Global Affairs.
About Gerald Seib
Gerald F. Seib has spent 45 years as a journalist for The Wall Street Journal. He served as executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal, and wrote the weekly “Capital Journal” column. Previously the Washington bureau chief of the Journal, he reported on the Middle East for the Journal in the mid-1980s, and covered the White House from 1987 through 1992. He has moderated three presidential debates, and interviewed every president since Ronald Reagan. He has won the Merriman Smith award for coverage of the presidency, the Aldo Beckman Award for coverage of the White House and the Gerald R. Ford Foundation Prize.
Seib was part of a team of reporters and editors that won the Pulitzer Prize in the breaking news category for coverage of 9/11. In 2005, he won the William Allen White Foundation national citation, and in 2009 the National Press Club’s award for political analysis. He has been a commentator on CNBC, Fox News, PBS’s Washington Week, CBS’s Face the Nation, Fox News Sunday and NBC’s Meet the Press. Seib is author of "We Should Have Seen It Coming: From Reagan to Trump, a Front-Row Seat to a Political Revolution" and "Pennsylvania Avenue: Profiles in Backroom Power," with John Harwood. He has served as a resident fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics and currently is a visiting fellow at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics and a senior mentor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Seib’s son Joseph is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.
Originally published at keough.nd.edu.