Elizabeth Becker

Award winning author and journalist who covered national and international news as a correspondent at the New York Times and Washington Post and the Senior Foreign Editor of National Public Radio for over 40 years. She won the DuPont Columbia Journalism award as producer of NPR coverage of the Rwanda Massacre and the first free South Africa Election in 1994 and won an Overseas Press Club accolade for her 1978 coverage of Cambodia under Pol Pot. She was part of the New York Times team that won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of 9/11. She is the author of three books on Southeast Asia, including "WHEN THE WAR WAS OVER, Cambodia And The Khmer Rouge Revolution" which won accolades from the Robert F. Kennedy Book Awards. Her latest book YOU DON"T BELONG HERE: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War" was published in 2021 and won Harvard's Goldsmith Book Prize as well as the Sperber book Prize. Her book titled "OVERBOOKED, the Exploding Business of travel and tourism", was an Amazon book of the year and praised by Arthur Frommer as "required reading for anyone interested in the future of travel."- This five year investigation of one of the world's largest business and its profound impacts led Conde Nast Traveler to name Becker as one of the most influential thinker in travel. "Rendez-vous Avec Pol Pot," the acclaimed 2024 feature film by Rithy Panh, is loosely based on her two weeks in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge and her interview with Pol Pot. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024 where she walked the red carpet with the actress Irene Jacob who plays her character. Her website is: www.elizabethbecker.com She is on Facebook and X - Twitter as @Elizbeckerwrite and is on Instagram as @ehb47 She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the board of Oxfam America Advocacy